Anais Nin (& Henry Miller) // "In you, alone, I have found the same swelling of enthusiasm, the same quick rising of the blood, the fullness… Before, I almost used to think there was something wrong. Everybody else seemed to have the brakes on… I never feel the brakes. I overflow. And when I feel your excitement about life flaring next to mine, then it makes me dizzy."
David Lynch // "I dream, but I don’t go by night-time dreams, it’s day-dreams that I love. Sinking down…sitting comfortably in a chair, where you might be controlling some of the thoughts and directing yourself here or there, but…at a certain point…the dream takes over and you enter in a place where things are unraveling before you without your intervention. And many things can present themselves that way…sometimes ideas that you fall in love with."
William S. Burroughs // "Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax..."
Albertine Sarrazin // "We kill a body more easily than a memory."
Claude Monet // "I want the unobtainable. Other artists paint a bridge, a house, a boat, and that's the end. They are finished. I want to paint the air which surrounds the bridge, the house, the boat, the beauty of the air in which these objects are located, and that is nothing short of impossible."
Tom Robbins // "It doesn't matter how sensitive you are or how damn smart and educated you are, if you're not both at the same time, if your heart and your brain aren't connected, aren't working together harmoniously, well, you're just hopping through life on one leg. You may think you're walking, you may think you're running a damn marathon, but you're only on a hop trip. The connections gotta be maintained."
Tom Waits (reading Charles Bukowski) // "Your life is your life. Don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission. Be on the watch. There are ways out. There is light somewhere. It may not be much light but it beats the darkness. Be on the watch. The gods will offer you chances. Know them. Take them. You can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. And the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. Your life is your life. Know it while you have it. You are marvelous. The gods wait to delight in you."
Louise Glück // "From the beginning of time, in childhood, I thought that pain meant I was not loved. It meant I loved."
Janis Joplin // "To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games. That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is to not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else."
Jean-Luc Godard // "Perhaps the most interesting thing with video is that you can grab the camera easily. But if you can grab the camera easily, maybe you can put it down more easily too and think about it better."
Bruce Lee // "In order to control myself, I must first accept myself, by going with and not against my nature."
Philip K. Dick // "Do not believe…do not assume that order and stability are always good, in a society or in a universe. The old, the ossified, must always give way to new life and the birth of new things. Before the new things can be born the old must perish. This is a dangerous realization, because it tells us that we must eventually part with much of what is familiar to us. And that hurts. But that is part of the script of life. Unless we can psychologically accommodate change, we ourselves begin to die, inwardly. What I am saying is that objects, customs, habits, and ways of life must perish so that the authentic human being can live. And it is the authentic human being who matters most, the viable, elastic organism which can bounce back, absorb, and deal with the new."