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"It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn't matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over."
"The more you understand yourself, the more you will understand the world."
"Then the Warrior of the Light thanks his traveling companions, takes a deep breath and continues on, laden with memories of an unforgettable journey."
"The devil is in the detail."
"He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration."
"I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement."
"My dad is my biggest source of inspiration. He's a lawyer, and when he'd get home, we always sat down and listened to music."
"And if the years vanish in their course, they are still only successions of days that pass right through us as we pass through them in order to seek constantly what You have to show us... to remain constantly in Your embrace, just as the whole of time remains in the embrace of eternity."
"Don’t go searching for a subject, let your subject find you. You can’t rush inspiration. … Once your subject finds you, it’s like falling in love. It will be your constant companion. Shadowing you, peeping in your windows, calling you at all hours to leave messages like, Only you understand me."
"Creativity has a lot to do with the main idea. Inspiration is what comes when you are dealing with the idea. But inspiration won't invite what's not there to begin with."
"The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire."
"I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive."
"Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don't want to do"
"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."
"Inspiration is God making contact with itself."
"The proper effect of the Eucharist is the transformation of man into God."
"The book is there for inspiration and as a foundation, the fundamentals on which to build."
"God must be allowed the right to speak unpredictably.... We must find him in our enemy, or we may lose him even in our friend. We must find him in the pagan or we will lose him in our own selves, substituting for his living presence an empty abstraction."
"After it's finished, sometimes I can trace a path that goes back to the possible source of inspiration."