“You know when I decided to become professional - that means to expose yourself naked to the world with the other creative minds - I said, 'I'm going into areas I don't know. I might just fall right down to hell and kill myself.” KnowsWorldMindMeanSaidMightFallHellCreativeAreasDecidedProfessionNakedCreative Mind Author:Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
“I've learned something on the road, traveling around: state shapes. The easier it is to draw the shape of the state, the harder it is to live in that state. So, if you live in a regular polygon, get the hell outta there. You gotta move to a squiggly area. Culture's attracted to squiggles.” IfsStatesMovingCultureHellEasierShapesDrawsAreasHarderI've Learned Author:Demetri Martin
“It wasn't until I went to college and met different people from different areas of life - and then went to San Francisco and met people who really knew who the hell they were - that I kind of caught up in a hurry.” PeopleKindDifferentHellCollegeMetsAreasCaughtCaught UpDifferent PeoplesSan Francisco Author:Patton Oswalt
“Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the executioners in Hell who, they say, incessantly renew old wounds and concentrate their attention on that area of it that is already lacerated.” SoulHopePoorAttentionHellAreasRaisesWoundsSensitiveTormentIncessantlyExecutionersOld Wounds Book:Selected Letters Source: Selected Letters