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."
Franz Kafka // "I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person."
Gloria Steinem (& Dorothy Pitman Hughes) // "Decisions are best made by the people affected by them."
Rick Rubin // "Everyone has their own way of coping and dealing with the world... If something is painful, if you're sensitive or uncomfortable, if you feel like you're different, your choices are to examine this and figure it out, or to numb yourself and ignore it. Most people tend to numb themselves and ignore their problems to avoid how they feel. Most people...just look for ways to kill the pain. We live in a kill-the-pain society. TV kills the pain. Doctors prescribe drugs to kill the pain. Somehow I got into tuning into how I feel and trying to understand it."
Claude Monet // "Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it."
Johnny Cash // "You can ask the people around me. I don't give up...and it's not out of frustration and desperation that I say I don't give up. I don't give up because I don't give up. I don't believe in it."
J.K. Rowling // "He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark. Not a scar, no visible sign...to have been loved so deeply...will give us some protection forever."
Mark Rothko // "I paint very large pictures. I realize that historically the function of painting large pictures is painting something very grandiose and pompous. The reason I paint them, however, is precisely because I want it to be very intimate and human. To paint a small picture is to place yourself outside your experience, to look upon an experience...you paint the larger picture, you are in it."
Tennessee Williams // "There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go."