BumblebeeNeckbraceQuotes

"I don't want my life to imitate art, I want my life to be art."

"Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present."

"The funny thing about enlightenment is that when it is authentic, there is no one to claim it. Enlightenment is very ordinary; it is nothing special. Rather than making you more special, it is going to make you less special. It plants you right in the center of a wonderful humility and innocence. Everyone else may or may not call you enlightened, but when you are enlightened the whole notion of enlightenment and someone who is enlightened is a big joke. I use the word enlightenment all the time; not to point you toward it but to point you beyond it. Do not get stuck in enlightenment."

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."

"I'm an artist. Artists don't need permission to work. Regardless of whether I'm acting or not, I write. I write when I'm tired in fact, because I believe your most pure thoughts surface."

"If you aren’t experiencing failure, then you are making a far worse mistake: You are being driven by the desire to avoid it."

"When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too."

"Don’t let the bastards grind you down."

"If you're creating anything at all, it's really dangerous to care about what people think."

"It's like you run into this dark tunnel, trusting that somewhere there's another end to it where you're going to come out. And there's a point in the middle where it's just dark. There's no light from where you came in and there's no light at the other end; all you can do is keep running. And then you start to see a little light, and a little more light, and then, bam! You're out in the sun."

"Because to be moved by something made by someone who has done something bad would mean that a bad person possesses the capacity to connect to us; that they haven’t, somehow, forfeited their humanity."

"I pray to the emptiness that is the page,” Tenn said, “and I pray to the emptiness that is my mind, and I ask that I be filled."

"I’d like the memory of me

"I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become."

"I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded."

"If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room."

"I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring."