“He asked if I wouldn’t like to live completely without problems, say in greece maybe, nice climate, everything provided? I say: “when we find out what we are actually doing and who we actually are, that is the point of living…it may be only a few seconds…a few seconds of significant actions, out of a lifetime…”
- William S. Burroughs, My Education: A Book of Dreams
“Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.”
- Arthur Miller
“What does it matter, a dream of love
Or a dream of lies
We’re all gonna be in the same place
When we die
Your spirit don’t leave knowing
Your face or your name
And the wind through your bones
Is all that remains”
- Tom Waits, Dirt In The Ground
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that.
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
“But it’s a poor fellow who can’t take his pleasure without asking other people’s permission.”
- Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
“According to John Wheeler and his Recognition Physics, nothing exists until it is observed by a “meaning sensitive observer.” Well, certainly not for the observer. How could it exist for him until he observes it? But he also has to pin it down, record it on some instrument or other. In order to get itself observed and so to exist, the as yet unconceived instance of being must exert a measurable effect. It does seem that these physicists go to some effort and expense to state what seems obvious. How can you measure something that occasions no effect on anything?”
- William S. Burroughs, My Education: A Book Of Dreams
“The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.”
- Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated
- Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
Prints are available here.
“I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ”
-Anaïs Nin
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
- James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
