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“Sacrifice to the Graces.”
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“The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece.”
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“I got in a fight one time with a really big guy, and he said, 'I'm going to mop the floor with your face.' I said, 'You'll be sorry.' He said, 'Oh, yeah? Why?' I said, 'Well, you won't be able to get into the corners very well.'”
Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 
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“The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. But Jean Rhys, in her biography, is read as borderline; Anaïs Nin is borderline; Djuna is borderline; etc. etc. Borderline personality disorder being an overwhelmingly gendered diagnosis. I write in Heroines: “The charges of borderline personality disorder are the same charges against girls writing literature, I realize - too emotional, too impulsive, no boundaries."”
Source : "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Kate Zambreno". Interview with Gina Frangello, therumpus.net. November 18, 2012.
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“There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium! The highest degree of delirium! Plunged in burning dementia! Art is the most enrapturing orgy within man's reach.. Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn't bore.”
Source : Jean Dubuffet, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (1993). “Jean Dubuffet 1943-1963: paintings, sculptures, assemblages : an exhibition”, Smithsonian Inst Pr
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“Nothing is more audacious than these women when detected; they assume anger, and take courage from the very crime itself.”
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“Playing football was like being trapped in a rhythm, and my whole career was like that. You have very little time to switch off.”
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“One thing that I've struggled with has been a certain amount of animosity toward the whole human race.”
Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
