"The longing for light is the longing for consciousness."

-- Carl Jung

#Light Quotes #Consciousness Quotes #Longing Quotes

“I'm steeped in aesthetic theory, so I tend to bring in my own amateurish way of baring a little bit - when, in practice, I'm not thinking about that when I'm working over the keyboard, or musing over musical ideas in my head. But when discussing it, we want to have some new thought about this new music.”

Source : Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. August 10, 2012.
“I prefer reading to writing. Reading changes your world view. Writing changes absolutely nothing. Except, of course, when it makes you rich.”
“They, OLDEFO (Old Established Forces), carry out l'exploitation de l'homme par 'homme (the exploitation of man by man). Do not let them live, so that there's no colonialism anymore in the world.”
“If God created the universe, there was a time when he commenced to create. Back of that commencement there must have been an eternity. In that eternity what was this God doing? He certainly did not think. There was nothing to think about. He did not remember. Nothing had ever happened. What did he do? Can you imagine anything more absurd than an infinite intelligence in infinite nothing wasting an eternity?”
“I'm not a cineaste. I've made so few films. Sometimes it feels each one is the last one or the first one.”
“Balanced is probably what I am, although that's just a polite way to say that you don't do anything very well.”

Source : IGN Interview, www.ign.com. December 1, 2003.
“The spectacle of modern investment markets has sometimes moved me towards the conclusion that to make the purchase of an investment permanent and indissoluble, like marriage, except by reason of death or other grave cause, might be a useful remedy for our contemporary evils. For this would force the investor to direct his mind to the long-term prospects and to those only.”
“I just know I'm too much of a wuss for Stephen King's books. I'm way too chicken to read horror.”

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