Simone de Beauvoir // "The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power."
Stephen King // "The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them. Words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out."
Salvador Dali // "Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dali, and I ask myself, wonderstruck, what prodigious thing will he do today, this Salvador Dali."
Samuel Beckett // "We are all born mad. Some remain so."
Diana Vreeland // "I think when you're young you should be a lot with yourself and your sufferings. Then one day you get out where the sun shines and the rain rains and the snow snows and it all comes together."
John F. Kennedy // "If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live."
Gloria Steinem // "Once we give up searching for approval, we often find it easier to earn respect."
Jeremy Irons // "What a camera likes are eyes which have life and a story to tell."
Jorge Luis Borges // "Don't talk unless you can improve the silence."
Miles Davis // "Man, sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself."
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."