quotes
Anouilh on art Celine on truth Beckett on humor Bateson on noise Howard Aiken on ideas A. O. Scott on trash Deans on theatrical sound design Kierkegaard on life N. Y. Times on incompetence Celine on life Bush on clarity Bush on Brazil Boutros-Ghali on the U.S. Boulez on “entertainment” Bootsy Collins on choice Peter Buck on Jackson Browne Werner Herzog on entertainment Feldman on composing as a career Robert Downey Jr. on alcohol Einstein on creativity
"Life must be lived forward, but it can only be understood backwards."
 
   – Kierkegaard
"Try as I might to lose my way, so as not to find myself face to face with my own life,  I kept coming up against it everywhere.  I met myself at every turn!"
 
   – Louis-Ferdinand Celine, from
      "Journey to the End of the Night"
"...We had a choice.  And I chose crazy."
 
  – Bootsy Collins