"Everything passes, but nothing entirely goes away."

-- Jenny Diski

“My visitors say they noticed perfumes from different companies in my fridge, and ask what I need these for. I explain that they are mainly there as historical benchmarks of quality, below which I must not and would not want to fall.”
“We Can Only Exist By Taking Our Minds Off The Fact That We Exist”
“The apocalypse is now! Americans know this, that the only hope is the flying saucers. Do you know how I see the world? Like a person who is dying. It's a worm who is dying to make a butterfly. We must not stop the worm from dying, we must help the worm to die to help the butterfly to be born. We need to dance with death. This world is dying, but very well. We will make a big, big enormous butterfly. You and I will be the first movements in the wings of the butterfly because we are speaking like this.”
“Most products are ugly. The harsh reality is that in many of these markets, form follows funding. And that products go where the market takes them.”

Source : "A Conversation About The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly" moderated by Chee Pearlman, www.wired.com. January 01, 2001.
“You have to stay one level above everyone else.”
“I have always had a hard time revising my work as a journalist, which was never much of a problem. You always have editors as backstops. Their job is to perfect your story. Most of them want to be useful.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“If you haven't read Alan Fletcher's The Art of Looking Sideways you should be arrested for calling yourself a Designer”
“In life, you don't get what you deserve; you get what you believe, plan, and expect.”

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