I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

A sound of cornered-animal fear and hate and surrender and defiance… like the last sound the treed and shot and falling animal makes as the dogs get him, when he finally doesn’t care any more about anything but himself and his dying.

Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn, and laughter.