Salvador Dali // "Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity. You know, Dali spent two months in jail in Spain, and these two months were the most enjoyable and happy in my life. Before my jail period, I was always nervous, anxious. I didn't know if I should make a drawing, or perhaps a poem, or go to the movies or the theatre...the people put me in jail, and my life became divine! Tremendous!"
Tom Waits (reading Charles Bukowski) // "Your life is your life. Don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission. Be on the watch. There are ways out. There is light somewhere. It may not be much light but it beats the darkness. Be on the watch. The gods will offer you chances. Know them. Take them. You can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. And the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. Your life is your life. Know it while you have it. You are marvelous. The gods wait to delight in you."
Madonna // "Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another."
Jim Morrison // "There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first."
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."
John Lennon // "You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do...it's all down to you, mate."
Louis CK // "It's not your life, it's life. Life is bigger than you. Life isn't something that you possess, it's something that you take part in and you witness."
Anne Frank // "Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be. How much you can love. What you can accomplish. And what your potential is."
Robert Frost // "The best way out is always through."
George H.W. Bush // (letter to Bill Clinton after losing election) "Dear Bill, When I walked into this office just now I felt the same sense of wonder and respect that I felt four years ago. I know you will feel that too. I wish you great happiness here. I never felt the loneliness some Presidents have described. There will be very tough times, made even more difficult by criticism you may not think is fair. I'm not a very good one to give advice; but just don't let the critics discourage you or push you off course. You will be our President when you read this note. I wish you well. I wish your family well. Your success now is our country's success. I am rooting hard for you. Good luck - George."
Grace Kelly // "I love walking in the woods, on the trails, along the beaches...I love walking alone. It is therapy. One needs to be alone to recharge one's batteries."
David Lynch // "We're nothing without an idea... I used to say that a desire for an idea is like a bait on a hook... You have to have patience, just like you do in fishing. How deep that hook goes depends on the size of that ball of consciousness. And desire, another word for it is focus... It's a little bit like daydreaming. Thoughts come and thoughts come and thoughts come and...boom! An idea comes that is so thrilling. You've caught a little purple fish with red fins and little dancing speckled eyes. And this fish could be just a fragment of the final film."