Joel

“It’s always worth remembering that everyone, even the most qualified, accomplished, and brilliant people, make mistakes, disastrous and embarrassing ones, from time to time.”
― Ryan French, The Sun: Beginner’s Guide to Our Local Star

“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

“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

“Someone who holds in confidence only those secrets he has been told not to reveal can never be trusted.”
― Gene Wolfe, Lake of the Long Sun