David Lynch // "There's a safety in thinking in a diner. You can have your coffee or your milkshake, and you can go off into strange dark areas, and always come back to the safety of the diner."
Albert Camus // "The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind."
Marion Cotillard // "As a teenager, I didn't want to be me...I wanted to be many different people. Maybe I realized that they all lived inside me and that if I managed to connect with them, they would become aspects of me."
Rick Rubin // "A lot of people who are artists don't understand it themselves. Especially the young ones. They feel different, but they don't know what it is. They feel more. Everything hurts. Everything. They're super sensitive. They see things that other people don't see."
Hermann Hesse // "This day will never come again and anyone who fails to eat and drink and taste and smell it will never have it offered to him again in all eternity. The sun will never shine as it does today...You must play your part and sing a song, one of your best."
Jean-Michel Basquiat // "I cross out words so you will see them more; the fact that they are obscured makes you want to read them."
Marilyn Monroe // "You’re always running into people’s unconscious."
Joseph Heller // attended a cocktail party hosted by a Wall Street hedge fund manager...his friend said "What do you think, Joe? That man earned more last month than you've made from all your books." Heller: "Maybe. But I have one thing he'll never have." Friend: "What's that?" Heller: "Enough."
Nina Simone // "I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself, reactivate my own standards, my own convictions about what I’m doing and why."
Jonas Mekas // "Don't we have enough ugliness already? And don’t we know these things already? Why always fight ugliness with ugliness, stupidity with stupidity, displaying still more and more of it? Why not create something beautiful to fight the ugliness with...fight ugliness just by being there, by emanating beauty, peace, truth."
Zadie Smith // "This is real. This life. We’re really here...this is really happening."
Pablo Picasso // "It takes a long time to grow young."