Anne Frank // "Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness."
Ernest Hemingway // "When people talk, listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe. You should be able to go into a room and when you come out, know everything that you saw there and not only that. If that room gave you any feeling you should know exactly what it was that gave you that feeling. Try that for practice."
Tennessee Williams // "I don't believe in villains or heroes...only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents."
James Baldwin // "I prefer sinners and madmen, who can learn, who can change."
David Lynch // "Every single thing in the world that was made by anyone started with an idea. So to catch one that is powerful enough to fall in love with, it is one of the most beautiful experiences. It's like being jolted with electricity and knowledge at the same time."
Madonna // "I've been popular and unpopular, successful and unsuccessful, loved and loathed, and I know how meaningless it all is. Therefore I feel free to take whatever risks I want."
Werner Herzog // "I'm trying to find these rare moments where you feel completely illuminated. Facts never illuminate you. The phone directory of Manhattan doesn't illuminate you, although it has factually correct entries, millions of them. But these rare moments of illumination that you find when you read a great poem, you instantly know. You instantly feel this spark of illumination. You are almost stepping outside of yourself and you see something sublime."
Marina Abramovic // "To control the breathing is to control the mind. With different patterns of breathing, you can fall in love, you can hate someone, you can feel the whole spectrum of feelings by changing your breathing."
Keith Richards // "To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That's the reason I'm still alive."
Anna Magnani // "Why I do it? I did it for love."
Winona Ryder // "You go through spells where you feel that maybe you're too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that."
I.M. Pei // "Let's do it right. This is for the ages."