Samuel Butler

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.

The thing about Paris, it's a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours on end and pretending you're Baudelaire. But it's not a city where you can work.

Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.