Allen Ginsberg // "Wanting approval...is a kind of aggression."
Marcel Duchamp // "Not everyone is an artist but everyone is a fucking critic."
Salvador Dali // "One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams."
Orson Welles // "I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could."
Tom Waits // "You know, people only travel really with their seeds, and with their songs. In Bosnia they interviewed a lot of refugees...they'd left with nothing and they asked them what they had, and they had seeds in their pockets from their gardens and their songs. That was it. Once you're nourished in that most fundamental way, everything else follows."
David Lynch // "We're all like detectives in life. There's something at the end of the trail that we're all looking for."
Keith Richards // "I'm not here just to make records and money. I'm here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: Do you know this feeling?"
Glenn Gould // "I can be alone anywhere."
Zadie Smith // "The idea we're given of reading...is that I should sit here and I should be entertained. And the more classical model that has been completely taken away, is the idea of a reader as an amateur musician. An amateur musician sits at a piano, has a piece of music which is the work made by somebody they don't know, who they probably couldn't comprehend entirely, and they have to use their skills to play this piece of music. The greater the skill, the greater the gift that you give the artist and that the artist gives you... It takes all kinds of sensitivities...all kinds of different qualities to understand what is going on in that book, not just on the superficial level, its plot and character, but what it believes... And the complexity of that is a real education of the emotions and of the heart; and it's very hard to get that education elsewhere. Those procedures are vital. They're really important to becoming a human being. Becoming a human being isn't just something you get with your birth, it's an exercise and it takes your whole life."
Aldous Huxley // "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
Abraham Maslow // "When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of basic human needs such as security, love and self-esteem."
Bob Dylan // "Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now."