- "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