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“The consumer game is tougher than pro football and more conniving than chess. One side [industry] invents the rules and the other side [consumers] is left to guess what they are.”
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“And you can't have two stars in one relationship. Somebody has to be willing to be the wagon...at lease some of the time”
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“Wearing a cape doesn't do much for your social life.”
Source : Austin Grossman (2007). “Soon I Will Be Invincible: A Novel”, p.15, Vintage
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“I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.”
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“Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot physically see with his eyes... Abstract art enables the artist to perceive beyond the tangible, to extract the infinite out of the finite. It is the emancipation of the mind. It is an explosion into unknown areas.”
Source : Arshile Gorky (2005). “Նամակներ”
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“I wish I could balance life as an artist and a mother, but sometimes when I am doing live concerts, I have to ask people to help me in my other role.”
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“We tend to suffer from the illusion that we are capable of dying for a belief or theory. What Hagakure is insisting is that even in merciless death, a futile death that knows neither flower nor fruit has dignity as the death of a human being. If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death? No death may be called futile.”
Source : Yukio Mishima (1977). “The Way of the Samurai: Yukio Mishima on Hagakure in Modern Life”, Basic Books (AZ)
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“If you put everything together as far as my mind, my body, my game. If you put everything in one bottle, this is probably the best I've been.”