Paolo Roversi // "We all have a sort of mask of expression. You say goodbye, you smile, you are scared. I try to take all these masks away and little by little subtract until you have something pure left. A kind of abandon, a kind of absence. It looks like an absence, but in fact when there is this emptiness I think the interior beauty comes out."
Anna Karina // "Everybody...all the people with talent and genius...there is one way they are all the same: they're very human, and they have this sense of giving to you. It doesn't matter what kind of way they're doing it, as long as it's getting to you...as long as you're on the same road."
William S. Burroughs // "Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape."
Albert Einstein // "Although I am typically a loner in daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those whose strive for truth, beauty and justice has preserved me from feeling isolated."
Joan Didion // "I work every day. Sometimes I don't accomplish anything...but if I don't work every day, I get depressed and get afraid to start again. So I do something every day."
Jack Kerouac // "The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars."
David Lynch // "I long for a kind of quiet where I can just drift and dream."
Walt Whitman // "I swear to you, there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell."
Tilda Swinton // "I am a great friend of chaos. It’s all we have. I mean, this whole concept of being able to manage life...life is risk, life is chance, life is being open to chance. The best things in my life, and probably in anybody’s life, come out of being open to being blown off course."
Jeff Buckley // "I have no advice for anybody; except to, you know, be awake enough to see where you are at any given time, and how that is beautiful, and has poetry inside. Even places you hate."
Karl Ove Knausgaard // "What makes life worth living? No child asks itself that question. To children life is self-evident. Life goes without saying: whether it is good or bad makes no difference. This is because children don’t see the world, don’t observe the world, don’t contemplate the world, but are so deeply immersed in the world that they don’t distinguish between it and their own selves. Not until...a distance appears between what they are and what the world is, does the question arise: what makes life worth living?"
John Lennon // "The more real you get, the more unreal the world gets."