"The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover."

“Acquaintances represent a source of social power, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are.”

“It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.”

“... that gender is a choice, or that gender is a role, or that gender is a construction that one puts on, as one puts on clothes in the morning, that there is a 'one' who is prior to this gender, a one who goes to the wardrobe of gender and decides with deliberation which gender it will be today.”

“By the time I'm nine I know the world is a dangerous place.  I've heard whispers about razorblades in apples, about Charlie Manson and his family.  But no one is offering any clear information.”

Source : Nick Flynn (2016). “Another Bullshit Night in Suck City”, p.51, Faber & Faber

“Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.”

Source : "Finding Your J Spot: Joy in Midlife and Beyond". Book by Peter Brill and David Debin, 2006.

“I dare not hope. I never was fainthearted before; but I cannot believe such a creature cares for me.”

“To multitudes of sufferers on beds of pain and languishing, Jesus has been the great physician to-day; in many a weeping circle around precious dust, He has been the Divine comforter, and the tears have almost ceased to flow as this Jesus has touched the bier. Dying lips have whispered His name, and the valley of the shadow has been illumined as with the glory from the celestial shores.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 94, 1895.

“Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.”