Chris Marchan

“For the first time in his life, he stopped worrying about results, and as a consequence the terms “success” and “failure” had suddenly lost their meaning for him. The true purpose of art was not to create beautiful objects, he discovered. It was a method of understanding, a way of penetrating the world and finding one’s place in it, and whatever aesthetic qualities an individual canvas might have were almost an incidental by-product of the effort to engage oneself in this struggle, to enter into the thick of things.”
― Paul Auster, Moon Palace

“We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don't have books, don't fuck them.”
― John Waters

“Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.”
― Erich Fromm