"I was Byron and Shakespeare formerly."

-- John Clare

“When we were arguing on my twenty-fourth birthday, she left the kitchen, came back with a pistol, and fired it at me five times from right across the table. But she missed. It wasn't my life she was after. It was more. She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her knees and give birth from it, she wanted to hurt me as only a child can be hurt by its mother.”

Source : Denis Johnson (2009). “Jesus' Son: Stories”, p.84, Macmillan
“In ordinary life, a mentor can guide a young man through various disciplines, helping to bring him out of boyhood into manhood; and that in turn is associated not with body building, but with building and emotional body capable of containing more than one sort of ecstasy.”
“My work is like digging, it's archaeological research among the arid materials of our times. That's how I understand my first films, and that's what I'm still doing...”
“Meditation is a gift confined to unknown philosophers and cows. Others don't begin to think till they begin to talk or write.”
“I didn't need it [formal training], because I've got the best taste in the world.”
“But politicians who talk about failed policies are just blowing smoke. Government policies succeed in doing exactly what they are supposed to do: channeling resources bilked from the general public to politically organized and influential interests groups.”
“I'm going to have cute ***** 'til I'm 90, so there's that. I'll have the best ***** in the nursing home. I'll be the envy of all the ladies around the bridge table.”
“People are craving this great progress in electronics, going after computers, the Internet, etc. It's a giant progress technologically. But they must have a balance of soul, a balance for human beauty. That means art has an important role.”

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