"a good book can make an almost impossible existance, liveable for the reader and the writer." (Charles Bukowski. The luck of the word)... "Le seul moyen de supporter l'existence, c'est des s'étourdir dans la littérature comme dans une orgie perpétuelle."
(Gustave Flaubert, a Mlle. Leroyer de Chantepie, 4 de septiembre de 1858)... "The only beautiful things, as somebody once said, are the things that do not concern us." (Oscar Wilde, The Decay of Lying)... "To begin let us take the following motto (not especially for this chapter, but generally): Literature is Love, Now we can continue." (Vladimir Nabokov, Despair)...
"I hardly write any stories and I don't work on songs quite as intently as in the past. You know why??? Television. Television is the most evil thing on our planet. Go right now to your T.V. and toss it out the window or sell it and buy a better stereo." (Kurt Cobain, Journals)
"The point is we're waiting, not how comfortable we are while waiting. Paleolithic man waited by caves for the realization of why he was there, and hunted; modern men wait in beautified homes and try to forget death and birth." (Jack Kerouac. The Scripture of the Golden Eternity)... "There are those who know and those who don't know. And for every ten thousand who don't know there's only one who knows. That's the miracle of all time -the fact that these millions know so much but don't know this. It's like in the fifteenth century when everybody believed the world was flat and only Colombus and a few other fellows knew the truth. But it's different in that it took talent to figure that the earth is round. While this truth is so obvious it's a miracle of all history that people don't know." (Carson McCullers. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter)