Wear a mask for long enough and you will eventually forget the person beneath it.
Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face. The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout "Save us!"... and I'll whisper "No."
- Rorschach (Walter Kovacs)
Favorite quotes from Buddhist wisdom (sorry I can't google the exact sources):
1. The Buddhist monk who summarized the Bible by saying: the Old Testament is about living by the "letter of the law," and the New Testament is living by the "spirit of the law"
2. The monk who compared vast/longstanding ignorance with darkness inside a huge cave that is overcome with the smallest flicker of light from a single match
3. The Zen Master who said to a hot dog vendor "Make me One with everything"