"I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages."

-- John Zorn

#Dark Quotes #Artist Quotes #Age Quotes

“Some journeys in life can only be traveled alone.”
“I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.”
“I never thought I'd be successful. It seems in my own mind that in everything I've undertaken I've never quite made the mark. But I've always been able to put disappointments aside. Success isn't about the end result; it's about what you learn along the way.”
“Some things, you just like what you like and you stick to it. Other things, you like what you like, but the things that come with celebrity or success comes more options. There's was nine, all of the sudden there's ninety-nine things to say "yes" to, which you didn't have the option to say "yes" to yesterday.”
“I refuse to turn to theology to justify the life or redeem it. There is a question always of the connection to the eternal. I say to myself above all, keep alive your conviction that there are sacred elements in the life in the practice of the life that must be respected. But the conviction in the existence of the sacred does not necessarily imply that you need to believe in a creator, because we are the ones that made the sacred.”
“A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.”
“Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.”
“A too explicit elucidation in education destroys much of the pleasure of learning. There should be room for sly hinters, masters of suggestion.”

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