Ethan Hawke // "She and I were giving each other the only thing we truly have to offer: our time. We were going to give each other the living minutes of our life."
Jimi Hendrix // "What’s good or bad doesn’t matter to me; what does matter is feeling and not feeling. If only people would...think in terms of feeling... You’ve got to know much more than just the technicalities of notes; you’ve got to know what goes between the notes."
Joan Didion // "People with self-respect exhibit a certain toughness, a kind of moral nerve; they display what was once called character...character—the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life."
Franz Kafka // "I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person."
Claude Monet // "It really is appallingly difficult to do something which is complete in every respect, and I think most people are content with mere approximations. Well, my dear friend, I intend to battle on, scrape off and start again."
Hermann Hesse // "My story isn't pleasant, it's not sweet and harmonious like the invented stories; it tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves."
William S. Burroughs // "The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible."
Ernest Hemingway // "I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know."