Jeff Buckley // "Sensitivity isn’t about being wimpy. It’s about being so painfully aware that a flea landing on a dog is like a sonic boom."
Jack Nicholson // "The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead."
Michelle Obama // "There is a strong possibility that Barack will pursue a political career, although it’s unclear. There is a little tension with that. I’m very wary of politics. I think he’s too much of a good guy for the kind of brutality, the skepticism. When you are involved in politics, your life is an open book...I’m pretty private, and like to surround myself with people that I trust and love... There is a possibility that our futures will go that way, even though I want to have kids and travel, spend time with family...it’ll be interesting to see what life has to offer. In many ways, we are here for the ride, just sort of seeing what opportunities open themselves up... If I had stayed in a law firm and made partner, my life would be completely different... Barack has helped me loosen up and feel comfortable with taking risks, not doing things the traditional way and sort of testing it out, because that is how he grew up. I’m more traditional; he’s the one in the couple that, I think, is the less traditional individual. You can probably tell from the photographs—he’s just more out there, more flamboyant. I’m more, like, 'Well, let’s wait and see.'"
Simone de Beauvoir // "I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish."
Marina Abramovic // "The most revolutionary ideas are not sellable...only mind-changing."
Ewan McGregor // "I like playing someone who's falling in love because I like the sensation of it. People do extraordinary things when they're falling in love."
Tom Petty // "All the best rebels...had some sense of hope in them."
Michael Jordan // "To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish...Stay in touch. Don't isolate."
Charles Bukowski // "Those faces you see every day on the streets were not created entirely without hope: be kind to them."
William S. Burroughs // "I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all."
Mick Jagger // "This isn't the first generation that's questioned the moral values of the last generation. But I think it's one of the first generations which has not had to worry about the material things because if you're hungry, you haven't really got much time to worry about morals. When I say morals, I mean like fighting wars and whether this is right...or right for this society to do that. If your stomach is full of food, you can start worrying about that. People can worry more and they'll have less and less work to do... As the years go on they'll have hardly any work to do because there will be machines to do it for them, which has already happened. And so they'll have to work like four hours a day and the rest of the time they have got to do something else. And that something else isn't going to be what people think. It isn't going to be just jumping around and swimming and just reading books and going to movies because...you get very bored with those things very quickly...I hope it's going to be something good."
Jerry Seinfeld // "Keep your head up in failure, and your head down in success."