“What I’m trying to make you know, not in your forebrain but in your marrow, is that reality never conforms very well to the textbooks, and sometimes it doesn’t conform at all.”

Source: Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame

Source: Then We Came to the End

Source: The Warrior Heir

Discourses on the Condition of the Great
Context: If you act externally with men in conformity with your rank, you should recognize, by a more secret but truer thought, that you have nothing naturally superior to them.

Rock and Roll Rebel.
Song lyrics, Bark at the Moon (1983)

Time Management (2007)

Romans 12:2
Epistle to the Romans

Paths of the Dead (2002)
Context: To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.