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“The better work men do is always under stess and at great personal loss.”

William Carlos Williams

“The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.”

Fyodor Dostoevsky

“We don’t want a world where the guarantee of not dying of starvation brings the risk of dying of boredom.”

May 1968 Graffiti

“When associating with scholars and artists we easily miscalculate in opposite directions: behind a remarkable scholar one finds, not infrequently, a mediocre man, and behind a mediocre artist quite often—a very remarkable man.”

Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche (Walter Kaufmann transl.)

“Reading usually precedes writing and the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer.”

Susan Sontag