“Cast down your bucket where you are.”

“Cast down fears and with unwavering conviction proceed with your intention.”

“And if you cast down an idol, there's nothing left.”

“Valkyrie smiled patiently. "I like how you do your make-up. Do you use a brush, or just dip your head in the bucket?”

“My advice to you, if you want to lose a bit of weight: don't eat anything that comes in a bucket. Buckets are the kitchen utensils of the farmyard.”

“The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket,
The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well.”

“All you slingers and fiends
hide behind your rocks
put down your guard
I'm not here to box
this is no showdown
so throw down your gun
you see it doesn't matter
where you come from.”

“The sweat—great slithering streams of it—pours down you. It runs down your legs, down the leg that is pedalling the sostenuto pedal, down the other leg. It oozes out all over your chest, flows down the binding around your middle where your full-dress pants soak it up. It flows everywhere, down your arms, down your hands.”

“I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.”

“It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.”