Faint Fest

“You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone. This is why art is important. Art would not be important if life were not important, and life is important.”

“We are unusual and tragic and alive.”

“the impulse to do and revere art is an ancient need—whether on cave walls, one’s own body, a cathedral or a religious rite, we hunger for a way to articulate who we are and what we mean.”

“I am writing this to say/I am not leaving you forever/I am going to get better/and then I’ll come home”

“You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy.”