"....whatever you do, with whom you do it or whether you do it alone, and when, and how, and why, to what mysterious end—it's balanced against nothing, against Death and forgetting. You balanced against oblivion."
— Joyce Carol Oates

"I hope the leaving is joyful, and I hope never to return."
— Frida Kahlo

"We looked like a parade barely moving toward YOU MIGHT GET LOST."
— Richard Brautigan

""The only unbearble thing is that nothing is unbearable.""
— Arthur Rimbaud

"I am not here to walk in the footsteps of an average sensibility. I am here to disturb, destabilize, to disarm the invincible, the armor-plated souls, so that they can let themselves be swept away by the best and most lyrical parts of themselves.
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— Isabelle Adjani

"She refers to her past as the time before she was "blown away.""
— Sam Shepard

"My father warned me about men and booze but he never said anything about women and cocaine."
— Tallulah Bankhead

"I think I would know Nora's fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women."
— James Joyce (Selected Letters)

"What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it."
— Salvador Dali

"To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now."
— Samuel Beckett

"“The Harmonica is the world’s best-selling musical instrument. You’re welcome.”"
— Bob Dylan (Theme Time Radio Hour)

"The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth."
— Albert Camus