Samuel Beckett // "The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day."
Michelangelo Antonioni // "I think people talk too much; that's the truth of the matter. I do. I don't believe in words. People use too many words and usually wrongly. I am sure that in the distant future people will talk much less and in a more essential way. If people talk a lot less, they will be happier. Don't ask me why."
Jimi Hendrix // "To change the world, you must first change your mind."
John Cleese // "Research has shown that constant relocation in childhood is often associated with creativity. It seems that the creative impulse is sparked by the need to reconcile contrasting views of the world. If you move home, you start living a slightly different life, so you compare it with your previous life, note the divergences and the similarities, see what you like better and what you miss, and as you do so, your mind becomes more flexible and capable of combining thoughts and ideas in new and fresh ways."
Whoopi Goldberg // "It never occurs to me that there are things that I cannot do."
Tennessee Williams // "The world is violent and mercurial...it will have its way with you. We are saved only by love...love for each other and the love that we pour into the art we feel compelled to share: being a parent; being a writer; being a painter; being a friend. We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is love."
Alexander McQueen // "I came to terms with not fitting in a long time ago."
Joe Strummer // "People can change anything they want to. And that means everything in the world. People are running about following their little tracks...and I am one of them. But we've all got to stop just following our own little mouse trail. People can do anything...this is something that I'm beginning to learn."
J.D. Salinger // "There are still a few men who love desperately."
Charles Bukowski // "In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see...and if some terrible act occurs in my work it is because such things happen in our lives... In my writing I do not always agree with what occurs, nor do I linger in the mud for the sheer sake of it. Also, it is curious that the people who rail against my work seem to overlook the sections of it which entail joy and love and hope, and there are such sections. My days, my years, my life has seen up and downs, lights and darknesses. If I wrote only and continually of the 'light' and never mentioned the other, then as an artist I would be a liar. Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can't vent any anger against them. I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere, in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence. They were only taught to look one way when many ways exist. I am not dismayed that one of my books has been hunted down and dislodged from the shelves of a local library. In a sense, I am honored that I have written something that has awakened these from their non-ponderous depths. But I am hurt, yes, when somebody else's book is censored, for that book, usually is a great book and there are few of those, and throughout the ages that type of book has often generated into a classic, and what was once thought shocking and immoral is now required reading at many of our universities. I am not saying that my book is one of those, but I am saying that in our time, at this moment when any moment may be the last for many of us, it's damned galling and impossibly sad that we still have among us the small, bitter people, the witch-hunters and the declaimers against reality. Yet, these too belong with us, they are part of the whole, and if I haven't written about them, I should, maybe have here, and that's enough. May we all get better together."
Kendrick Lamar // "What separated me...is the fact that I didn't get caught inside the reality. I was always dreaming about doing something else or going somewhere else."
George Carlin // "People say, 'I'm going to sleep now,' as if it were nothing. But it's really a bizarre activity. For the next several hours, while the sun is gone, I'm going to become unconscious, temporarily losing command over everything I know and understand. When the sun returns, I will resume my life."