"I have no literary fears."

-- Carlos Fuentes

“If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite rare.”
“It is comforting that travel should have an architecture, and that it is possible to contribute a few stones to it, although the traveller is less like one who constructs landscapes -- for that is a sedentary task -- than like one who destroys them. . . . But even destruction is a form of architecture, a deconstruction that follows certain rules and calculations, an art of disassembling and reassembling, or of creating another and different order.”

Source : Claudio Magris (2001). “Danube”, Vintage
“We have been sold a lifestyle, when what our soul desired was life.”
“Life is so endlessly delicious”
“I'm totally grateful for the fans my family has and I have; they gave me a lot of support when I was in treatment. But it was just odd, you know? It's stressful. Just the whole fact of being someone in the public eye.”

Source : "Jack Talks About His Addiction and Recovery". MTV.com, February 2003.
“When I was starting, I was very much influenced by the straight up, eyes to camera style of August Sander. He is really the only one. Had I known then the work of people like Ken Russell, Vivian Maier, Helen Levitt, and Steven Berkoff, they would undoubtedly have influenced me too.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I'm learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I'm doing.”
“Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom.”

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