"Perhaps one day I will be fortunate enough to be upset over how I misunderstood I am. A girl can dream."

“The more recently power has originated, the less it can remain stationary - first because those who created it have become accustomed to rapid further movement and because they are and will be innovators per se; secondly, because the forces aroused or subdued by them can be employed only through further acts ...”

Source : Jacob Burckhardt (2012). “Judgements on History and Historians”, p.84, Routledge

“When you ask me to sign your NDA, you're basically saying, in writing, that you don't trust me.”

“I'm not an abstract artist; I leave that to others. To me, abstract art ended with Kazimir Malevich's 'Black Square.' To continue it is senseless.”

Source : "Jonas Mekas captures one moment at a time". Interview with Molly Glentzer, www.chron.com. November 15, 2013.

“Insanity and psychosis can no longer be respected as meaningful [terms] - but are used by limited individuals in positions of social power to describe ways of behaving and thinking that are alien, threatening, and obscure to them.”

“I think, back in the day, when I was first starting to make music, all I wanted to do was to get a record deal.”

“I loved him so much. It didn't change all the reasons we couldn't be together, but it kept me returning to his body, kept my skin seeking his skin over and over again in the sad dance we did.”

“Before forty, you think that exhaustion is something like a long-lasting hangover. But at forty you learn all about it. Even your passions exhaust you.”

“I'll tell you what I probably would prefer to happen less and less: actors that I know and respect in shampoo ads. Or modeling.”