Even when I was little, people would always ask me if I wanted to be a movie star, and I would always say, "No, I just want to be an actor. "
Everyone is an idiot," I stated. "Except me.
Memory warps time, as it does the sights and sounds and smells of reality; for what shapes it is emotion, which can twist what seems clear, just as the surface of a pond seems to bend the stick thrust into the water.
The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans.
When in doubt, be ridiculous.
Except. What is normal at any given time? We change just as the seasons change, and each spring brings new growth. So nothing is ever quite the same.
When people first discover beauty, they tend to linger. Even if they don’t at first recognize it for what it is.
I call to mind flatness and dampness; and then all is madness - the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things.
Art teaches us to see into things. Folk art and kitsch allow us to see outward from within things.
Police in Texas arrested a man who was using the alias 'Barack Obama' while trying to steal money from 35 ATMs. They could tell something was up when a guy named Barack Obama was trying to take money from banks instead of giving it to them.
Any pleasure that does no harm to other people is to be valued.