Suffering must be the inevitable tariff exacted from spirit for residing in human form.

The first prerequisite of elaborate mental exercise was a full stomach.

I have traveled down this path before - 'List of Seven' and 'Twin Peaks' both have thematic similarities - but 'Paladin' took me much deeper into the intuitive underground. Always bearing in mind Joseph Campbell's Rule No. 1: When entering a labyrinth, don't forget your ball of twine.

Hate wears you down and doesn’t hurt your enemy. It’s like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die.

What else are our lives but a story we tell ourselves to find some sense in the pain ofliving?

Keep your friends close and your enemies dead and buried in the basement.

We have two families in life. One were born with that shares our blood. Another we meet along the way that's willing to give it's life for us.

If man could apply half the ingenuity he’s exhibited in the creation of weapons to more sensible ends, there’s no limit to what he might yet accomplish