-   "We are all born mad. Some remain so."   Samuel Beckett
-  "This other reality is always sending us hints, which without art, we can't receive."   Saul Bellow
-  "To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing."  Anne Carson
-   “Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”    Erich Fromm  (im not so certain of that)
- "Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity."  T.S. Eliot
-  "If you see a woman naked long enough, you start to pay attention to her face."  Henry Miller

-   "Beneath our chatter, there is a silent language of our whole being which yearns for art"        Rollo May

-   "like a field mouse not shaking the grass"     Ezra Pound

-   " I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake." Hemingway

-   "Certain creativities create controversial crevasses"  ds

-  "I see no reason to record the obvious"     Edward Weston 

-  "I want to be with those who know secret things."  Rilke

-  "we all have interior landscapes that have not been walked."   Joplin