Fernando Pessoa // "The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur."
Jim Harrison // "Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy...or they become legend."
Tove Jansson // "I want to show you cities and landscapes and teach you how to look at things in new ways and how to get along in places you don't already know inside out. I want to put some life in you..."
Bruce Springsteen // "More than rich, more than famous, more than happy...I wanted to be great."
Frank Sinatra // "The best revenge is massive success."
Simone de Beauvoir // "I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way."
T.S. Eliot // "Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
Jeanne Moreau // "I know so many people staying in the same place, and I think, my God, look at them! They're dead before they die... I don't like going where I've already been. Life is a myriad of territories to discover. I don't want to waste time with what I already know."
John Cage // "I noticed...you get into a taxi and very frequently the poor taxi driver is just beside himself with irritation. And one day I got into one and the driver began talking...accusing absolutely everyone of being wrong...and I simply remained quiet. I did not answer his questions, I did not enter into a conversation, and very shortly the driver began changing his ideas and simply through my being silent he began...saying rather nice things about the world around him... My notion of how to proceed in a society to bring change is not to protest the thing that is evil, but rather to let it die its own death... I think we can state that the power structure is dying because it cannot make any inspiring statements about what it is doing. I think protests about these things...will give it the kind of life that a fire is given when you fan it, and that it would be best to ignore it, put your attention elsewhere, take actions of another kind of positive nature, rather than to continue to give life to the negative by negating it."
Swami Vivekananda // "Do one thing at a time and while doing it put your whole soul into it, to the exclusion of all else."
Martha Graham // "Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can."
Tom Waits // "I would rather be a failure on my own terms than a success on someone else's. That's a difficult statement to live up to, but then I've always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there."