John Lennon // "The more I see, the less I know for sure."
Albert Camus // "You will never be able to experience everything. So, please do...justice to your soul and simply experience yourself."
Albert Einstein // (Letter from young girl): "I forgot to tell you, in my last letter, that I was a girl. I mean I am a girl. I have always regretted this a great deal, but by now I have become more or less resigned to the fact. Anyway, I hate dresses and dances and all the kind of rot girls usually like... Long ago, before I wanted to become a scientist, I wanted to be a jockey and ride horses in races. But that was ages ago, now. I hope you will not think any the less of me for being a girl!" (Einstein): "I do not mind that you are a girl, but the main thing is that you yourself do not mind. There is no reason for it."
Sylvia Plath // "Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself."
Edward Gorey // "I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist... I am a person who does those things."
Johnny Depp // "Growing old is unavoidable, but never growing up is possible. I believe you can retain certain things from your childhood if you protect them - certain traits, certain places where you don't let the world go."
Amy Poehler // "I want to be around people that do things. I don’t want to be around people anymore that judge or talk about what people do. I want to be around people that dream and support and do things."
Charles Bukowski // "Generally speaking, you're free until you're about 4 years old. Then you go to grammar school and then you start becoming...oriented and shoved into areas. You lose what individualism you have, if you have enough of course, you retain some of it... Then you work the 8 hour job with almost a feeling of goodness, like you're doing something. Then you get married like marriage is a victory, and you have children like children is a victory... Marriage, birth, children. It's something they have to do because there's nothing else to do. There's no glory in it, there's no steam, there's no fire. It's very, very flat... You get caught into the stricture of what you're supposed to be and you have no other choice. You're finally molded and melded into what you're supposed to be. I didn't like this."
Elizabeth Taylor // "Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together."
Milan Kundera // "We all need someone to look at us. We can be divided into four categories according to the kind of look we wish to live under. The first category longs for the look of an infinite number of anonymous eyes, in other words, for the look of the public. The second category is made up of people who have a vital need to be looked at by many known eyes. They are the tireless hosts of cocktail parties and dinners... Then there is the third category, the category of people who need to be constantly before the eyes of the person they love... And finally there is the fourth category, the rarest, the category of people who live in the imaginary eyes of those who are not present. They are the dreamers."
Vivienne Westwood // "The sexiest people are thinkers."
Alan Moore // "I hope that the world turns and that things get better. But what I hope most of all is that you understand what I mean when I tell you that even though I do not know you, and even though I may never meet you, laugh with you, cry with you, or kiss you. I love you. With all my heart, I love you."