“All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It’s like an ideal of racial purity.”
~Derek Jarman; british director, writer, artist and activist.
“the organism understands what the mind requires, and fulfills those intentions”
~ Chad Keeton; american artist, musician and critic.
“The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.”
~Noam Chomsky; american linguist, philosopher, activist and author.
“Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there’s humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.”
~David Lynch; american director, screenwriter, producer, painter and visual artist.
“It isn’t necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.”
~Frank Zappa; american composer, musician, humorist and activist.
“Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.”
~Chuck Jones; american producer, director, screenwriter, animator and cartoonist.
“A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.”
~Charles Baudelaire; french poet, critic and translator.
“I take little bits and pieces of ideas that I may or may not believe in but I give them to this character and he runs with them. I have fun with however he handles the situation.”
~Jhonen Vasquez; american cartoonist, writer and producer.
“A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.”
~Roald Dahl; british author.
“I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.”
~Kurt Cobain; american singer-songwriter and musician.