"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."
— Laozi

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
— Robert Frost

"An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's."
— J.D. Salinger (Franny and Zooey)

"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you."
— Ray Bradbury (Zen in the Art of Writing)

"What's the point of having a library full of books you've already read?"
— Ray Bradbury

"My actions are my true belongings."
— Thich Nhat Hanh

"I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done."
— Ray Bradbury

"I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody."
— J.D. Salinger

"It just happened. As though a moment comes when it's both necessary and natural to make a decision that has long since been made. "
— Georges Simenon

"What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning."
— Heisenberg

"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."
— Edgar Degas

"Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life."
— Oscar Wilde

"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.""
— Jim Morrison