"Drugs will have a huge effect on my work for the rest of my life, whether I'm using or not."

-- Layne Staley

“She looked at him gravely. "You cannot call back the river that has already flowed past you, Ruith. All you can do is be grateful for where you are in it.”

Source : Lynn Kurland (2011). “Spellweaver”, p.108, Penguin
“There are so many kinds of different feelings - not good feelings - going on in the room, and he comes in with so much compassion. He's a straight talker and pulls them into what feels like a really positive action-struggle kind of feeling. Without seeing that, you might have all kinds of judgments or feelings about what might go on in a place like that. But it felt akin to a spiritual healing more than I could have possibly anticipated.”

Source : Source: classic.esquire.com
“I want to write, I want to sing. I want to do the same thing for others, have my music, hopefully do that for others one day, not realizing what I sort of had to climb. I had an idea a little bit, but I think that I underestimated the whole thing.”
“When you mathematize something you distill its essence.”
“I think all art comes out of conflict. When I write I am always looking for the dramatic kernel of an event, the junctures of people's lives when they go in one direction, not another.”
“Once I had a better beat, I needed to have an even better one. And somewhere in that climbing, I lost sight of, sort of, my moral and ethical underpinnings.”
“Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.”
“(Those women whom the distaff no longer claims nor spun cloth) driven made, mad, mad by Bacchus.”

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