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“Art should never be a slave to commerce, but for all working artists that's exactly what it must be.”
Source : Caitlín R. Kiernan's blog entry (greygirlbeast.livejournal.com), January 31, 2005.
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“Everyone who pays taxes has blood on their hands.”
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“Virtue and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for a morality which human beings arbitrarily devised.”
Source : Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.145, New Directions Publishing
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“To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat.”
Source : "Mr. Strangelove: A Biography of Peter Sellers". Book by Ed Sikov, 1999.
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“My grandfather, in 1848, had fled from Germany to find political freedom in the United States.”
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“What I had later learned was that the FBI knew I was going to New York a couple days after the raid.”
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“I don't think it's fair - you get married, you give your wife a wedding ring. I think you should give her a mood ring. Oh, it may sound crass, but just check the color when you come home. 'Hi honey. Infernal red? Oh boy, I ain't getting laid, and I gotta cut the lawn, I know it.'”
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“When a daring idea first crosses one's mind, if it is to be realized in the future it is often appealing. Then, as the time for its execution comes nearer, one begins to dread that which had once been anticipated.”
Source : Cynthia Voigt (2013). “The Callender Papers”, p.16, Simon and Schuster
