Joseph Heller // attended a cocktail party hosted by a Wall Street hedge fund manager...his friend said "What do you think, Joe? That man earned more last month than you've made from all your books." Heller: "Maybe. But I have one thing he'll never have." Friend: "What's that?" Heller: "Enough."
Nina Simone // "I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself, reactivate my own standards, my own convictions about what I’m doing and why."
Jonas Mekas // "Don't we have enough ugliness already? And don’t we know these things already? Why always fight ugliness with ugliness, stupidity with stupidity, displaying still more and more of it? Why not create something beautiful to fight the ugliness with...fight ugliness just by being there, by emanating beauty, peace, truth."
Zadie Smith // "This is real. This life. We’re really here...this is really happening."
Pablo Picasso // "It takes a long time to grow young."
Bill Watterson // "If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I bet they would live a lot differently."
Jim Jarmusch // "If anyone tells you there is only one way, their way, get as far away from them as possible, both physically and philosophically."
Hunter S. Thompson // "On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio."
Lea Seydoux // "You have to save yourself from the rules."
Anne Frank // "Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness."
Ernest Hemingway // "When people talk, listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe. You should be able to go into a room and when you come out, know everything that you saw there and not only that. If that room gave you any feeling you should know exactly what it was that gave you that feeling. Try that for practice."
Tennessee Williams // "I don't believe in villains or heroes...only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents."