George Orwell // "It’s not so much staying alive, it’s staying human, that’s important. What counts is that we don’t betray each other."
Leonard Cohen // "It isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply."
J.D. Salinger // "I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice."
Gertrude Stein // "Coffee is a lot more than just a drink; it’s something happening...like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but not actual hours or minutes, but a chance to be, like be yourself, and have a second cup."
Dylan Moran // People will kill you over time, and how they'll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like "be realistic."
Jeff Buckley // "I have no advice for anybody...except to, you know, be awake enough to see where you are at any given time, and how that is beautiful...even places you hate."
Henry Miller // "To imagine a new world is to live it daily, each thought, each glance, each step, each gesture, killing and recreating... To spit on the past is not enough. To proclaim the future is not enough. One must act."
Rick Rubin // "The world is only as free as it allows its artists to be."
Tennessee Williams // "There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go."
Björk // "The United Nations asked people from all over the world a series of questions. Iceland stuck out on one thing. When we were asked what we believe, 90% said 'ourselves.' I think I'm in that group."
Charles Bukowski // "For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command...I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us. We are here to read these words from all these wise men and women who will tell us that we are here for different reasons and the same reason."
Matthew McConaughey // "All the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop to any of it."