“Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.”

“As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.”

“At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.”

“Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?”

“Live or die, but don’t poison everything.”

“I’ve come to believe that in everyone’s life, there’s one undeniable moment of change, a set of circumstances that suddenly alters everything.”

“And these children that you spit onAs they try to change their worldsAre immune to your consultations.They’re quite aware of what they’re going through.- Changes”

“Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.”

“It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. … The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.”

“After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.”

“You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm.”

“You will suffer, son of Hades!’ What else is new? Nico thought.”

“Life’s greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose.”

“The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.”

“… so this is for us.This is for us who sing, write, dance, act, study, run and loveand this is for doing it even if no one will ever knowbecause the beauty is in the act of doing it.Not what it can lead to.This is for the times I lose myself while writing, singing, playingand no one is around and they will never knowbut I will forever rememberand that shines brighter than any praise or fame or glory I will ever have,and this is for you who write or play or read or singby yourself with the light off and door closedwhen the world is asleep and the stars are alignedand maybe no one will ever hear itor read your wordsor know your thoughtsbut it doesn’t make it less glorious.It makes it ethereal. Mysterious.Infinite.For it belongs to you and whatever God or spirit you believe inand only you can decide how much it meantand meansand will forever meanand other people will experience it toothrough you.Through your spirit. Through the way you talk.Through the way you walk and love and laugh and careand I never meant to write this longbut what I want to say is:Don’t try to present your art by making other people read or hear or see or touch it; make them feel it. Wear your art like your heart on your sleeve and keep it alive by making people feel a little better. Feel a little lighter. Create art in order for yourself to become yourselfand let your very existence be your song, your poem, your story.Let your very identity be your book.Let the way people say your name sound like the sweetest melody.So go create. Take photographs in the wood, run alone in the rain and sing your heart out high up on a mountainwhere no one will ever hearand your very existence will be the most hypnotising scar.Make your life be your artand you will never be forgotten.”