Human history is in truth nothing but the history of the slow, uncertain, and surprising fulfillment of the Promise.

People, man, they love hurting people. It's not even fair.

David Ortiz

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Alexander Pope

Cinema is the culmination of the obsessive, mechanistic male drive in western culture. The movie projector is an Apollonian straight-shooter, demonstrating the link between aggression and art. Every pictorial framing is a ritual limitation, a barred precinct.

Camille Anna Paglia

We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?

Michael Fassbender

But some great records are are being made with today's technology and there are still great artists among us. Likewise there are artists today who are so reliant on modern technology, they wouldn't have emerged when recording was more organic.

Tony Visconti

It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but... it is flattering and of course challenging.

Jonathan Davis

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

Jimi Hendrix

Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface.

Paul Goodman

There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket - safe, dark, motionless, airless - it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.

C.S. Lewis

Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

George D. Boardman

My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.

Paul Cezanne

You would wind up as a cat, I told her. They don't need anyone else. I need you, she replied.Well, I said. Maybe I'll come back as catnip.

Jodi Picoult