Tom Robbins // "It doesn’t matter how sensitive you are or how damn smart and educated you are, if you’re not both at the same time, if your heart and your brain aren’t connected, aren’t working together harmoniously, well, you’re just hopping through life on one leg. You may think you’re walking, you may think you’re running a damn marathon, but you’re only on a hop trip. The connections gotta be maintained."
Bjork // "We go through changes roughly every three years, sometimes seven, where our colour palette changes and how we feel changes…the aroma or the textures…the lightness or darkness around us shifts."
Arundhati Roy // "The system will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling…their ideas, their version of history…their notion of inevitability. Remember this: We may be many and they be few... Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing."
Toni Morrison // "For me, success is not a public thing. It’s a private thing. It’s when you have fewer and fewer regrets."
Kurt Vonnegut // "I once told my wife I was going out to buy an envelope: 'Oh,' she said, 'well, you’re not a poor man…why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet?' And so I pretended not to hear her and went out to get an envelope because I have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And see some great looking babies. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And I’ll ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don’t know. The moral of the story is…we’re here on Earth to fart around. Of course, the computers will do us out of that. But what the computer people don’t realise, or they don’t care, is we’re dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And it’s like we’re not supposed to dance at all anymore."
Salvador Dali // "Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dali, and I ask myself, wonderstruck, what prodigious thing will he do today, this Salvador Dali."
Tom Waits // "Don’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me. Choke those little bad days. Choke ‘em down to nothin’. They’re your days. Choke ‘em!"
Bob Dylan // "I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else."
Jack Kerouac // "Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream."
Joan Didion // "I learned to find equal meaning in the repeated rituals of domestic life. Setting the table. Lighting the candles. Building the fire. Cooking. All those soufflés, all that crème caramel... These fragments I have shored against my ruins, were the words that came to mind then. These fragments mattered to me. I believed in them...I could find meaning in the intensely personal nature of life."
James Baldwin // "The world is held together, really it is, held together, by the love and the passion of a very few people."
Charles Bukowski // "Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing. To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it. To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art... Boxing can be art. Loving can be art. Opening a can of sardines can be an art... Not many have style. Not many can keep style... Style is the difference, a way of doing, a way of being done."