"Some of my best work is done when I'm half asleep."

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Source : "An uncommon eye for common places / When reality presents itself to Henry Wessel, his 'soft eyes' are available to capture -- and elevate -- the moment". Interview with Jesse Hamlin, www.sfgate.com. February 22, 2007.

Henry Wessel, Jr.

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“We wish we could have been there for you. We didn't have many role models of our own--we latched on to the foolish love of Oscar Wilde and the well-versed longing of Walt Whitman because nobody else was there to show us an untortured path. We were going to be your role models. We were going to give you art and music and confidence and shelter and a much better world. Those who survived lived to do this. But we haven't been there for you. We've been here. Watching as you become the role models.”
“Why can't we all just acknowledge that 'nature' - that is, 'sex' or 'erotic' images, which are really just 'attracters' are everywhere. Of course a flower looks like what it looks like - that's what it is - to a bee.”
“Thoughts will lead you in circles. Silence will bring you back to your centre.”
“It takes two to get one in trouble.”
“There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.”
“A person could last a long while without touch, but once someone had experienced the comfort, joy, and sheer relief of another human body close, the desire to experience that again was hard to deny.”

Source : Mary Johnson (2011). “An Unquenchable Thirst: A Memoir”, p.478, Spiegel & Grau
“The nice thing is that, at least in Los Angeles, I'm known as a character actor and I do auditions for other things besides just cartoon shows”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Kanye took me from a kid who listened to music to a kid who lived music.”

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