"You just have to keep getting out of your own way so that whatever it is that wants to be written can use you to write it."

“We must learn to let go, to give up, to make room for the things we have prayed for and desired.”

Source : Charles Fillmore (1967). “Dynamics for Living: A Topical Compilation of Essential Fillmore Teachings”, p.122, BookBaby

“I'm 19, I'm a girl, I'm very young, I like all sorts of different things, I like all sorts of different styles of music, I like all sorts of different styles of clothes, I like all sorts of different colors of hair.”

“I avoided nudity unless a film couldnt be told without those scenes. If you look at my films, few of them have that element, yet nudity and male fantasies have become emblematic of my work.”

“People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.”

“The hardest work most of us do is maintaining the appearance of normality.”

“We acquire the love of people who, being in our proximity, are presumed to know us; and we receive reputation or celebrity, from such as are not personally acquainted with us. Merit secures to us the regard of our honest neighbors, and good fortune that of the public. Esteem is the harvest of a whole life spent in usefulness; but reputation is often bestowed upon a chance action, and depends most on success.”

“Euripides says,-Who knows but that this life is really death,And whether death is not what men call life?”

“All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.”

Source : "Artists in Their Studios: Caio Fonseca". Interview with Michael Hainey, www.gq.com. May 2, 2012.