"I don't write on topics that require a lot of urgency. But in 'Stiff,' I wanted to change people's hearts about organ donation. Whenever I get a chance, I try to talk about that."

#Heart Quotes #Writing Quotes #People Quotes

“If you make a 'Star Wars' reference, everybody's familiar with that. It's a common reference that most people can relate to - 'Bartleby, The Scrivener,' probably not so much.”

Source : Interview with Vlada Gelman, www.avclub.com. February 24, 2011.
“I think there is a part of life that I'm missing.”
“Making photographs that dealt with the understanding of who I am as a gay man and dealt with the process of accepting that, and also accepting what I'm into sexually, what sexually arouses me. So I was making these images not necessarily knowing what they were about, but just putting it out there - that mode of thinking or consideration of my own desires, and also the much larger conversation around images that deal with ideas of sexuality and how those images are distributed and then accepted or understood by whoever is viewing those images.”
“Marijuana has killed far fewer people than swimming pools; itâ€™s the war against it that does all the violence.”
“[My mother] died a few months ago, and when she was dead I kissed her lips. For me it was a beautiful moment. From then on I started living with her, asking her from time to time if she was alright, if she was pleased with me. But these things are far greater than photography, and I probably shouldn't be speaking about them.”
“I do realise how incredibly lucky I am.”
“If you cannot find yourself on the page very early in life, you will go looking for yourself in all the wrong places.”
“True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.”

Source : Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.159, Delphi Classics

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