Gary Crandall

“The expression that there is nothing to express,
nothing with which to express, no power to
express, no desire to express, together with the
obligation to express.”
—Three Dialogues with
George Duthuit

“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes
to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”
– Bob Dylan

“I abandoned anything that didn’t give me wood.”
—Steve Vai
Rocker

“Your only duty is to save your dream”
—Amedeo Modigliani

“Nearly all destruction or self-destruction, almost all hatred and
sorrow, almost all greed and possessiveness, spring from starvation
of love and sex.”
– Jolan Chang The Tao of Love and Sex

“High station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling
experiences are survived with grace”
—Tennessee Williams – Memoirs

“And between one and none there gapes, as always between
something and nothing, an infinity”
– Nietzche

“There is only one success – to be able to live your life in your
own way and not to give others absurd, maddening claims upon it.”
– Christopher Morley

“Success in life consists of going from one mistake to the next
without losing your enthusiasm.”
—Winston Churchill

“You are what your deep, driving desire is.
As your desire is, so is your will.
As your will is, so is your deed.
As your deed is, so is your destiny.”
—Brihadaranyaka Upanishad IV.4.5

“There was a muddy center before
we breathed
… from this the poem springs:
that we live in a place
that is not our own and,
much more, not ourselves.”
—Wallace Stevens
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction

“I passed by the brothel as though
past the house of a beloved.”
—Franz Kafka

“Some people say being a romantic is a way of
escaping life. But I think being a romantic is
making sure life doesn’t escape you”
—source unknown

“My hunger for her
Explains everything I’ve done
I howl at the moon
The whole night through
And I really don’t care
If I do
I’d go out of my mind
But for you”
—Sting

“A solitude ten thousand fathoms deep
Sustains the bed on which we lie, my dear;
Although I love you, you will have to leap;
Our dream of safety has to disappear”
W.H. Auden
Leap Before You Look

“The absolute of solitude
demands the infinity of desire.”
—Brad Viking

“All time spent in other pursuits but that of
making love… embraced by an ever-increasing
number of arms… is time lost.”
—Emmanuelle

Abbysus abbysum invocat
[the abyss calls forth the abyss]
—Latin saying

“Though they go mad they shall be sane,
Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;
Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.”
—Dylan Thomas

“Life ends up somewhere between
what you require and what you desire”
—source unknown

“Love is an illusion. The most we
can hope for from life… is passion.”
—Marquis de Sade

“Passion is the element in which we
live. Without it we hardly vegetate”
—Lord Byron

“To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to
what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your
soul alive.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson

“I couldn’t wait for success, so I went ahead without it.”
– Jonathan Winters

“My life has no meaning, no direction,
no purpose. And yet I’m happy. I don’t
understand. What am I doing right?”
—Charles M. Schulz

“People aren’t looking for the meaning of life… they’re
looking for the feeling of being alive.”
—Joseph Campbell

“We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives
so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
—Charles Bukowski

“Why can’t we always live in a house full of women, give
extravagant gifts to them, make love to them, have them tell
their secrets, laugh with them, tell jokes with them, and sing,
and sing, and sing. It could be a perfect sultan’s lair.”
—Federico Fellini

“Life lasts but the snap of a finger. What a waste, what a
shame, to be lowered away for all eternity without once
having your mortal soul purged with the emetic of High
Adventure.”
—Jack Wheeler

“There’s a hell of a good universe next door… let’s go.”
—e. e. cummings

“But worlds are made of ‘Hello’ and ‘Goodbye’”
—e. e. cummings

“You have to be lost to find what can’t be found”
—Pirates of the Caribbean