Marshall McLuhan (1972)

Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity.

Flaubert

Soyez réglé dans votre vie et ordinaire comme un bourgeois, afin d'être violent et original dans vos œuvres.

Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

Edna St. Vincent Millay, from "Love Is Not All"

It well may be that in a difficult hour,
Pinned down by pain and moaning for release,
Or nagged by want past resolution's power,
I might be driven to sell your love for peace,
Or trade the memory of this night for food.
It well may be. I do not think I would.

Pablo Neruda, from Sonnet XVII

I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.

Rainer W. Fassbinder

The more real things get, the more like myths they become.

David Mamet in Wired Magazine

Some tree hugger, and it might have been Emerson, said that if every man just acted in his own best interests, this would be paradise on Earth.

This is the sentiment of one who has never been punched in the nose.

Jonathan Wallace, "Lying"

The reason that I hate lies is because, like you, I wish to navigate carefully through life, and to do so I must be able to calculate my true position. When you lie to me, you know your position but you have given me false data which obscures mine.