"...by bringing myself over the edge and back, I discovered a passion to live my days fully, a conviction that will sustain me like sweet water on the periodically barren plain of our short lives."

“I was never the one that really wanted to be a solo artist, I was always in groups.”

“Matt would stare at Andrew for 10 minutes. It's depressing that people are different. Everyone should be one person, who should then kill itself in hand-to-hand combat.”

“Taqwaa is not by praying all night and fasting all day but rather it is abiding by the commands of Allah and staying away from His prohibitions.”

“Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity.”

“Identification makes general sanity and complete adjustment impossible. Training in non-identity plays a therapeutic role with adults.”

Source : Alfred Korzybski (1958). “Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics”, p.91, Institute of GS

“You have got to goad yourself toward a becoming that is in accordance with what you are innate. You have got to sometimes become the medicine you want to take. You have got to, you have absolutely got to put your face into the gash and sniff, and lick. You have got to learn to get sick. You have got to reestablish the integrity of your emotions so that their violence can become a health and so that you can keep on becoming. There is no sacrifice. You have got to want to live. You have got to force yourself to want to.”

Source : "Mofo 2016: the avant-garde comes to Hobart for a Gatsby-style party" by Monica Tan, Melissa Davey, www.theguardian.com. January 17, 2016.

“People who had empires, unfortunately, want them back eventually, somehow, someway.”

“If you want to feel proud of yourself, then do good. Take action that will make you proud. . . . And if you really want to feel proud, then do something to help someone else.”