I won't wait for the right time, the right place, the right people or circumstances. Right is wrong, left is 'write' and I'm a fucking unicorn who knows how to type.

"People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don’t deserve them, or that they’ll be unable to achieve them. We, their hearts, become fearful just thinking of loved ones who go away forever, or of moments that could have been good but weren’t, or of treasures that might have been found but were forever hidden in the sands. Because, when these things happen, we suffer terribly..."

"There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy."

“The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanely sensitive. To them… a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create..."

"Once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that you’ve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more. You share hopes for the future, dreams that will never come true, goals that were never achieved and the many disappointments life has thrown at you..."

“The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”

“For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.”

"If you see that some aspect of your society is bad, and you want to improve it, there is only one way to do so: you have to improve people. And in order to improve people, you begin with only one thing: you can become better yourself...The only real science is the knowledge of how a person should live his life. And this knowledge is open to everyone."

“Inverted totalitarianism, unlike classical totalitarianism, does not revolve around a demagogue or charismatic leader. It finds expression in the anonymity of the Corporate State. It purports to cherish democracy, patriotism, and the Constitution while manipulating internal levers.”

“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”

"A good photographer must love life more than he does photography."

“Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Soak it then in such trains of thoughts as, for example: Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible."

“If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”

"I can't see how I can go on living away from you—these intermissions are death...Here I am back and still smouldering with passion, like wine smoking...Not a passion any longer for flesh, but a complete hunger for you, a devouring hunger..."

If they have a talent they respect it...They do not ask for the cleverness which shows itself in continual lying. They want especially, if they are artists, freshness, elegance, humanity...Besides, they are fastidious.

“This is the extraordinary thing about creativity: If just you keep your mind resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent way, sooner or later you will get a reward from your unconscious.”

"Studies have found the the most elite violinists in the world generally follow a 90-minute work regime with a 15 to 20 minute break afterwards. Instead of trying to maintain energy throughout the day, breaking it down into sessions with play and relaxation is most effective."

Rebelle Academy Awards and Recommendations for the Best of 2012.

“I take my hat off to you---or I would, if I were not afraid of showering you in spiders.”

“Deeply I go down into myself. My god is Dark and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence.”

"Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart; confess to yourself whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write."

"Please let us not interfere with the others’ work or play, nor let the world see our private joys or disagreements..."

It is these rare, powerful moments, that interrupt your consumerist, monkey mind; these pauses, these cracks in the Matrix, when beauty breaks in and out of the most unexpected places and takes you by surprise. It almost punches you in the face.

"Excellence is not an act, but a habit. We are what we repeatedly do." (But Why?)

What would one not do for a vintage typewriter? And what terrible, immediate extinction must await the man who can't or won't type like the ancients...

"We can transform the meaning of the word 'cure.' We can transform the role of knowledge. We can be human." ~ Salvatore Iaconesi turns his cancer into art.

That's the paradox: the only time most people feel alive is when they're suffering, when something overwhelms their ordinary, careful armour, and the naked child is flung out onto the world.

“Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such terrors exist. I have woken up.”

I'm tired of paying for getting intoxicated. Let's go to the kitchen you and I right now and make ourselves a creamy, nourishing body lotion.

"Sometimes, I feel that my life is a series of trapeze swings. I’m either hanging on to a trapeze bar swinging along or, for a few moments, I’m hurdling across space between the trapeze bars."

"Be good and you will be lonesome."

Say it's a cold, rainy November day and your kitchen is pretty empty, except for a lonely and curvy butternut squash...

"You don’t fall in love like you fall in a hole. You fall like falling through space. It’s like you jump off your own private planet to visit someone else’s planet. And when you get there it all looks different: the flowers, the animals, the colours people wear."

“As you proceed through life, following your own path, birds will shit on you. Don't bother to brush it off. Getting a comedic view of your situation gives you spiritual distance. Having a sense of humor saves you.”

You vote for your presidents and politicians once every four years. But you vote on your life, your health, your well-being and ultimately, your happiness, your only reality, your You---every single hour and with every dollar you spend.

"I like fat buttery words, such as ooze, turpitude, glutinous, toady. I like solemn, angular, creaky words, such as straitlaced, cantankerous, pecunious, valedictory."

“Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.”

The Art of Quiet in a world that can't stop talking.

"The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets."

“My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition. I mock this skull. I look at it and I say, ‘You’ve got the wrong fellow. You may not believe in life, but I don’t believe in death. Move on!’ The skull snickers and moves closer, but that doesn’t surprise me.” ~ Yann Martel, Life of Pi Nobody asked to be born. Yet here we are. In this sometimes beautiful valley and others, dark cave—called Life—you can switch from angels to bats in a second. We have remote controls embedded in our hearts. Search bars installed in our eyes — I think, by Google. Our roles are mostly Pause and Play, Fast-forward or Rewind, Delete, Copy & Paste, Upload, Download, Undo, Redo. Our hearts are full of pixels. But life, that...

I am nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there’s a pair of us – don’t tell! They’d banish us, you know?

My heart is a strange country. One minute she speaks one language and the next, another. She's like a flesh version of Switzerland.

"And don't expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance."

Paint your sorrow alkaline.

"Don't be like so many thousands of people who call themselves writers, don't be dull and boring and pretentious, don't be consumed with self-love."

To imagine, to design and to build a world. And then to live in it.

I don't meant to ruin your day but wouldn't you rather know?

Life with a chance of demons.

"Real love is never perplexed, never qualifies, never rejects, never demands. It burns."

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”