Truman Capote // "You're wonderful. Unique. I love you."
John Lennon // "You have to do it yourself. That's what the great masters and mistresses have been saying ever since time began. They can point the way, leave signposts and little instructions in various books...the instructions are all there for all to see... I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you."
Keith Haring // "Whatever you want to do, the only secret is to believe in it and satisfy yourself. Don't do it for anyone else."
William S. Burroughs // "Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biological state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole."
George Harrison // "I remember thinking I just want more. This isn't it. Fame is not the goal. Money is not the goal. To be able to know how to get peace of mind, how to be happy, is something you don't just stumble across. You've got to search for it."
Gertrude Stein // "Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. They listen so much that they forget to be natural."
Steve Jobs // "If today were the last day of your life, would you want to do what you are about to do today?"
Prince // "A strong spirit transcends rules."
Louis CK // "You're never going to get the same things as other people. It's never gonna be equal. It's not gonna happen ever in your life, so you must learn that now, okay? Listen, the only time you should look in your neighbor's bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don't look in your neighbor's bowl to see if you have as much as them."
Seymour Bernstein // "When you reach my age, you stop playing games. You stop lying to people and you just say really what's in your heart. And you find out that it's the greatest compliment to someone when you really say the truth and don't just say what they expect you to say."
Willem Dafoe // "My father used to say: 'You don't deserve it if you can't take care of it.' I've always been haunted by that."
Ettore Sottsass // "I believe you travel to confirm your ideas, and whatever you can't confirm you discard as you travel. In a certain sense, you redesign yourself when you're traveling."