The artist must be a witness to the sacred.

So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

I want to be what I've always wanted to be: dominant.

除了感官，什么也不能治灵魂的创痛，同样，感官的饥渴也只有灵魂解除得了。