William S. Burroughs // "As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape."
William Gibson // "Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes."
Zadie Smith // "My dear, resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied. But also resign yourself to the lifelong momentary flashes of happiness that arrive in the seconds between after having completed a journey and before pursuing a new one. For while we, the never satisfied, are lifelong grievers, the rest are lifelong settlers. For while we aim high and constantly fall short, they aim low, and lower, and are constantly satisfied with themselves for having hit such low hanging fruit."
Yoko Ono // "Try to say nothing negative about anybody for three days, for forty-five days, for three months. See what happens to your life."
Agnes Martin // "Happiness...is everywhere. When we are unhappy it is because something is covering our minds and we are not able to be aware of happiness. When the difficulty is past, we find happiness again... Happiness is unattached. Always the same. It does not appear and disappear. It is not sometimes more and sometimes less. It is our awareness of happiness that goes up and down. Happiness is our real condition. It is reality. It is life."
Ernest Hemingway // "Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive... You will be dead soon enough."
Wim Wenders // "The more opinions you have, the less you see."
Angela Merkel // "Trying to keep a society together, trying to keep the older and the younger people together, trying to keep those who live in rural areas together with those who live in cities is one of the most important and most noble tasks these days."
Gabriel Garcia Marquez // "Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant."
Patti Smith // "Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don't make compromises, don't worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned about doing good work. Protect your work and if you build a good name, eventually that name will be its own currency."
Audrey Tautou // "I'm not a rebellious person usually. But I fight against hypocrisy, and stupidity, and those invisible rules that can drive your life and put you through certain pressures. I don't especially like to always do everything that I've been told. I guess I can sometimes be...wild."
Benjamin Clementine // "You know, when I was coming to New York, through the clouds, I didn't see any stars. It was nighttime, I looked down, and I saw lights, so I imagined the stars were falling down from the sky. When we landed, I still didn't see the stars...the stars are right here. They've become human beings."