Marilyn Monroe // “We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.”
Paul McCartney // "I'm the eternal optimist. No matter how rough it gets, there's always light somewhere. The rest of the sky may be cloudy, but that little bit of blue draws me on."
Claude McKay // "If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything."
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."