Joel

“Biographies bore me. I don’t care how insightful a biographer is, no one knows what’s going on inside someone else’s head. Autobiographies bore me, too, because we lie to ourselves even more than a biographer does.”
― Charles de Lint, Memory and Dream

“I discovered that I’m an ignorant and shameless person. I’ve used my shameless media sensationalism to achieve shamelessness even greater than the public’s, and I’ve used my individual shamelessness to realize a collective shamelessness. And I don’t see shamelessness as a disgrace, but instead shamelessly believe in shamelessness, and this has led to my shameless state that you see today.”
― Weiwei Ai, Ai Weiwei's Blog: Writings, Interviews, and Digital Rants, 2006-2009

“I have always had an interest in furniture. At the very least, it weighs us down and keeps us on the ground, and prevents us from clambering up trees and howling naked as the terror of our useless lives overcomes us. It keeps us from wandering aimlessly in pathless wildernesses, plotting cannibalism in forest clearings and dripping caves.”
― Abdulrazak Gurnah, By the Sea

“Everything under the sun can be settled or worked out with discussion, but the one thing that can’t be changed is stupidity.”
― Weiwei Ai, Ai Weiwei's Blog: Writings, Interviews, and Digital Rants, 2006-2009