Annie Dillard // "There is always a temptation in life to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for years on end. It is all so self-conscious, so apparently moral... But I won't have it. The world is wilder than that in all directions, more dangerous...more extravagant and bright."
Charlie Chaplin // "You'll find that life is still worth while, if you just smile."
David Cronenberg // "Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos."
Daphne Guinness // "True beauty always has something a little strange about it. The flaws in something are sometimes the most beautiful bits."
Matt Dillon // "If you build a wall around yourself, it draws people to invade it."
Aldous Huxley // "It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research and study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other."
Malala Yousafzai // "When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful."
Louis CK // "Offending people is a necessary and healthy act. Every time you say something that's offensive to another person, you just caused a discussion...you just forced them to have to think."
Walker Evans // "Stare. It is the way to educate your eye… Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long."
Bruce Springsteen // "More than rich, more than famous, more than happy...I wanted to be great."
John Lennon // "People like me are aware of their so-called genius at ten, eight, nine...I always wondered, "Why has no one discovered me?" In school, didn't they see...that all they had was information that I didn't need? I used to say to my auntie, "You throw my fuckin' poetry out, and you'll regret it when I'm famous," and she threw the bastard stuff out...Why didn't they put me in art school? Why didn't they train me...I was different. I was always different. Why didn't anybody notice me? A couple of teachers would notice me, encourage me to be something...express myself. But most of the time they were trying to beat me into becoming a fuckin' dentist or a teacher."
Johnny Depp // "I always felt like I was meant to have been born in another era, another time."