Xavier Dolan // "I love everything about people: the way they walk, the way they talk, the way they cry, the way their mouth is distorted whenever they do this or say that. It's always been a passion for me to observe."
Keith Haring // "No matter how long you work, it’s always going to end sometime. And there’s always going to be things left undone. And it wouldn’t matter if you lived until you were seventy-five. There would still be new ideas. There would still be things that you wished you would have accomplished. You could work for several lifetimes….Part of the reason that I’m not having trouble facing the reality of death is that it’s not a limitation, in a way. It could have happened any time, and it is going to happen sometime. If you live your life according to that, death is irrelevant. Everything I’m doing right now is exactly what I want to do."
Patti Smith // "Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply."
Buckminster Fuller // "We must do away with the...notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery...so we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living."
Anais Nin // "We don't see things as they are. We see things as we are."
Whitney Houston // "You can fool people. You can fool anybody anytime of the day, but you can't fool yourself. At night, when you go home, you've got to be straight up with you."
Johnny Cash // "All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate. I choose love."
Madonna // "No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself."
Henry Miller // "Everyday we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heart-ache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same source. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians. We have only to open up, to discover what is already there."
Kurt Vonnegut // "Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded...you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of... God damn it, you've got to be kind."
Ansel Adams // "Ask yourself: Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning? Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful. How high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world."
Daphne du Maurier // "But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands."