Clarice Lispector // "It's inside myself that I must create someone who will understand."
Alan Rickman // "It’s a human need to be told stories. The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible."
Bob Dylan // "I was born very far from where I’m supposed to be, and so, I’m on my way home, you know?"
Jack Kerouac // "Pretty soon there'll be a new kind of murderer, who will kill without any reason at all, just to prove that it doesn't matter, and his accomplishment will be worth no more and no less than Beethoven's last quartets...churches will fall, Mongolian hordes will piss on the map of the West, idiot kings will burp at bones, nobody'll care and then the earth itself'll disintegrate into atomic dust (as it was in the beginning) and the void still the void won't care, the void'll just go on with that maddening little smile of its that I see everywhere, I look at a tree, a rock, a house, a street, I see that little smile...That 'secret God-grin' but what a God is this who didn't invent justice?...So they'll light candles and make speeches and the angels rage. Ah but 'I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't matter' will be the final human prayer."
Jean-Luc Godard // "My aesthetic is that of the sniper on the roof."
Haruki Murakami // "Body cells replace themselves every month. Even at this moment. Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories."
Vivienne Westwood // "You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people."
David Lynch // "I’m a regular person. I do regular things."
Vincent van Gogh // "What am I in the eyes of most people — a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person — somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then — even if that were absolutely true, then I should one day like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart... Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me."
Leonard Cohen // "This is the only poem I can read. I am the only one who can write it. I didn’t kill myself when things went wrong. I didn’t turn to drugs or teaching. I tried to sleep. But when I couldn’t sleep, I learned to write. I learned to write what might be read on nights like this by one like me."
Jackson Pollock // "Something in me knows where I’m going."
Janis Joplin // "To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games. That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is to not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else."