Naguib Mahfouz // "Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease."
Sir Ian McKellen // "I feel sorry for people who go out and they're...typing on their phones, walking along the street. You know while you've just sent that message, which didn't matter....the love of your life walked past, and you missed it. I have met people in the street, and lived with them for five years."
Joni Mitchell // "When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark."
Bob Dylan // "May you stay forever young."
Jeanne Moreau // "Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I'm finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden."
Jack Kerouac // "I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life."
Audre Lorde // "Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppressors maintain their position and evade their responsibility for their own actions. There is a constant drain of energy which might be better used in redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing the future."
Wolfgang Tillmans // "Only the brave show what they love."
Tim Burton // "Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?"
John Steinbeck // "That's why I'm talking to you. You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what it is, where most people see what they expect."
Gabriel Garcia Marquez // "It is not true that people stop pursuing their dreams because they grow old...they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams."
James Baldwin // "It's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself. You become a collaborator, an accomplice of your own murderers, because you believe the same things they do... You have somehow to begin to break out of all that and try to become yourself. It's hard for anybody... Hard, because you've got to divorce yourself from the standards of that society."