“You have to notice the truth in order to be able to avoid it.”

“It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.”

“In order to have bliss you have to be able to accept all the parts of the other, all the wildness and the darkness. You have to be able to hold on.”

“That is surely the truth, at least for now. But perhaps you have not noticed: the truth is forever changing.”

“They dispute not in order to find or even to seek Truth, but for victory, and to appear the more learned and strenuous upholders of a contrary opinion. Such persons should be avoided by all who have not a good breastplate of patience.”

“Creative people, especially those who are just starting out, feel that they have to conform and be a mass-produced product in order to be noticed. The truth of the matter is that genuineness and unconventionality is often what helps make a mark on the world.”