"How long do we live in the fictions of our past? And how do we convince anyone that who we write is not necessarily who we are?"

“To be called a coward, I don't think that's fair”

“Moving forward is not always good, especially when there is a precipice ahead! Know to turn back! Know to step back! Sometimes moving backwards is moving forward!”

“There have been times I almost got a persecution complex. I felt like people wouldn't let me grow up. They always saw me as a smiling kid or goofy teenager, no matter how much I'd changed.”

“Hollywood continues to present the U.S. Army as being the good guys, always defeating the aliens or foreigners.”

“Keep your eye on the prize and focus on your mission. Remember what you’re trying to do, what your value is, why it’s important, and at the same time, change course and direction. If the market’s telling you different things how are you going to adjust to that?”

“God is absence. God is the solitude of man.”

“If we have only one that can govern, and we chose him... does that mean we're not democratic?”

“Our dearest hopes in pangs are born, The kingliest Kings are crown'd with thorn.”

Source : Gerald Massey (1855). “The Ballad of Babe Christabel: With Other Lyrical Poems”, p.138