Maia

“When we feel ourselves to be sole heirs of the universe, when ‘the sea flows in our veins… and the stars are our jewels’, when all things are perceived as infinite and holy, what motive can we have for covetousness or self-assertion, for the pursuit of power or the drearier forms of pleasure?”
― Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell

“I am speaking naturally of that world which is peculiar to the big cities, the world of men and women whose last drop of juice has been squeezed out by the machine—the martyrs of modern progress. It is this mass of bones and collar buttons which the painter finds so difficult to put flesh on.”
― Henry Miller

“Maktub’ in Arabic means ‘it is written.’ Write a narrative in which the speaker starts to understand that events, as they happen in his/her life, can be seen not as surprises but as an uncovering- the systematic revelation of fate.”
― Chris Kraus, Aliens & Anorexia

“...All this academic shit out there about The Body as if it were a thing apart...Anorexia arises not from narcissism, a fixation with your body, but a sense of its aloneness:...By recognizing the aloneness of your body it is possible to reach outside…, escape the predetermined world. ‘Anorexia is an active stance. The creation of an involuted body. How to abstract oneself from food fluxes and the mechanical sign of the meal”
― Chris Kraus, Aliens & Anorexia