Anthony Bourdain // "Maybe that’s enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom...is realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go."
Hunter S. Thompson // "A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance... You have no choice but to accept things as they are, or to seriously seek something else... But beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living within that way of life. But you say, ‘I don’t know where to look; I don’t know what to look for.’ And there’s the crux. Is it worth giving up what I have to look for something better? I don’t know...is it? Who can make that decision but you? But even by deciding to look, you go a long way toward making the choice."
David Lynch // "No matter what the weather is, I wish for all of you blue skies and golden sunshine internally all along the way."
Arundhati Roy // "The system will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling…their ideas, their version of history…their notion of inevitability. Remember this: We may be many and they be few... Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing."
Toni Morrison // "For me, success is not a public thing. It’s a private thing. It’s when you have fewer and fewer regrets."
Kurt Vonnegut // "I once told my wife I was going out to buy an envelope: 'Oh,' she said, 'well, you’re not a poor man…why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet?' And so I pretended not to hear her and went out to get an envelope because I have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And see some great looking babies. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And I’ll ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don’t know. The moral of the story is…we’re here on Earth to fart around. Of course, the computers will do us out of that. But what the computer people don’t realise, or they don’t care, is we’re dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And it’s like we’re not supposed to dance at all anymore."
Salvador Dali // "Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dali, and I ask myself, wonderstruck, what prodigious thing will he do today, this Salvador Dali."
Tom Waits // "Don’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me. Choke those little bad days. Choke ‘em down to nothin’. They’re your days. Choke ‘em!"
Bob Dylan // "I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else."
Jack Kerouac // "Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream."
Joan Didion // "I learned to find equal meaning in the repeated rituals of domestic life. Setting the table. Lighting the candles. Building the fire. Cooking. All those soufflés, all that crème caramel... These fragments I have shored against my ruins, were the words that came to mind then. These fragments mattered to me. I believed in them...I could find meaning in the intensely personal nature of life."
James Baldwin // "The world is held together, really it is, held together, by the love and the passion of a very few people."