"I've looked at life from both sides now, from win and lose, and still somehow, it's life's illusions I recall...I really don't know life at all."

- Joni Mitchell, Both Sides, Now (1967)

"There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic."

- Anaïs Nin

“Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.”

- Harold Rowe "Hal" Holbrook as Lou Mannheim in Wallstreet (1987)

“For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.”

- Alice Walker