"All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living."

-- Bertolt Brecht

“Both of my parents are surfers, of course, so they understood where my passion for surfing was at and I guess they saw the talent that I had.”
“Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but Im more interested in telling a story.”
“Memory is a political act. Forgetfulness is the handmaiden of tyranny.”

Source : James Carroll (2013). “Crusade: Chronicles of an Unjust War”, p.13, Metropolitan Books
“I am always cautious.”
“Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.”
“No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.”

Source : "Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (Volume I)". Book by Christian Nestell Bovee, 1862.
“You always feel very vulnerable when you put your work out there. You feel a kind of nakedness. And you expose something of the inner workings of the way you experience life.”
“The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.”

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