Chasten Ruin

"God's away. God's away. God's away on business, Who were the ones we kept in charge? Killers, thieves and lawyers." -- Tom Waits

"There is nothing that man is afraid of discovering more than how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming." -- Soren Kierkegaard

"If there's one thing you can say about mankind; there's nothing kind about man." -- Tom Waits

"Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you." -- Friedrich Nietzsche

"The wayfarer,
Perceiving the pathway to truth,
Was struck with astonishment.
It was thickly grown with weeds.
"Ha," he said,
"I see that none has passed here
In a long time."
Later he saw that each weed
Was a singular knife.
"Well," he mumbled at last,
"Doubtless there are other roads." -- Stephen Crane

"The human mind can subjugate anything, even real pain." - Bruce Lee