"The soul is the principle of life, and it's also something much closer to our own awareness and consciousness of our existence because fundamentally for Plotinus what we are is souls, we're not intellects."

“One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.”

Source : "John Darnielle Tells the Story Behind the Mountain Goats' Biblical New LP". Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. September 8, 2009.

“Naked Truth needs no shift.”

“You've been captive for so long that you don't even realize you want freedom anymore.”

“I never was a crazy liquor drinker, and I don't like beer that much - though I keep the brews at home because my homies love beer.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

“I have a certain curiosity for life that drives me and propels me forward.”

“It is a sad mission to cut through and destroy with the scissors of analysis the delicate and iridescent veils with which our proud mediocrity clothes itself.”

Source : Cesare Lombroso (2017). “The Man of Genius”, p.11, Litres

“When I was a young child my folks would ask me why I was rocking back and forth and I'd answer "cause of the music in my head!"”

“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.”