“Anything cracked will shatter at a touch.”

Ovid

“Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it. ”

Bertolt Brecht

“Religious guilt causes people to deny their behavior even as they engage in it. Guilt short-circuits rational examination of behavior in favor of supernatural notions like “evil” and “the temptation of Satan.”

Darrel Ray, ED.D., Sex & God: How Religion Distorts Sexuality

“A good fuck can make even an agnostic see God.”

K.D. West, The Visitor Entertains

“Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes.”

Walt Whitman

‘A poem is never finished, it’s only abandoned.’

Paul Valery, French poet

“Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.”

Oscar Wilde

“Hide the ideas, but so that people find them. The most important will be the most hidden.”

Robert Bresson, Notes on the Cinematographer

“I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still face a blank page every morning, and my characters don’t really care how many books I’ve sold.”

Dan Brown