"Participating in Society in not a thing one can do naturally; one has to rehearse for it."

-- Michel Faber

“I've been completely fascinated with history because it tells everything about what's going to happen next because it's cyclical, everything repeats in general.”
“I get up at 4:30 in the morning, seven days a week, no matter where I am in the world.”
“The Forbidden Room and Seances are related. Both of them are made up of lost film matter adapted through the medium of me and Evan, but the way they present themselves is totally different. One of them is this big Russian nesting doll of movie narratives and the other is much shorter experience on the internet.”
“I love light in my work but I was never influenced by neon signage in itself, rather its effect on nature and architecture. You can't ignore what's around you, but at the same time, an artist who has a sophisticated form language knows how to pull in different elements, and readjust and redirect those. . . . So it becomes an engineering process, too.”

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“I just love thinking about what makes people tick”
“Never complain and never explain.”

Source : In J. Morley 'The Life of William Ewart Gladstone' (1903) vol. 1, p. 123.
“Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southern man apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance. Our cause was so just, so sacred, that had I known all that has come to pass, had I known what was to be inflicted upon me, all that my country was to suffer, all that our posterity was to endure, I would do it all over again.”
“There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may.”

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