“I don’t understand anything. Life is so strange. I feel like someone who’s lived all his life by a duck-pond and suddenly is shown the sea. It makes me a little breathless, and yet it fills me with elation… I want to live. I’m beginning to feel a new courage. I feel like one of those old sailors who set sail for undiscovered seas and I think my soul hankers for the unknown.” – W. Somerset Maugham (The Painted Veil)

“Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away. To hell with that. Shake the tree and knock the great sloth down on his ass.” – Ray Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451)

Miro & Jesse: at the fence

While the cat’s away the mice will play… this:

“I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the summer — and what trees and seasons smelled like — how people looked and walked and smelled even. The memory of odors is very rich.” – John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“I play myself all the time, on camera and off. What else can I do?” – Harry Dean Stanton

“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.” – Edgar Allan Poe

“An innocent prisoner will become more angry by the hour due to the injustice suffered. He will shout and rage. A guilty prisoner becomes more calm and quiet. Or he cries. He knows he’s there for a reason. The best way to establish guilt or innocence is non-stop interrogation.” – Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: The Lives of Others (2006)

Martina Gedeck and Sebastian Koch in Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s Oscar winning… The Lives of Others

“There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink.” – Truman Capote (The Muses Are Heard: An Account)

“She Was A Stranger Among The Living.” – Carnival of Souls (1962): Candace Hilligoss

Cult classic, directed by Herk Harvey and a significant influence for both David Lynch and George A. Romero…

“In Heaven Everything Is Fine”… – David Lynch’s first feature film, cult classic ERASERHEAD (1977)

Jack Nance as Henry Spencer

“She walked up to me and she asked me to dance / I asked her her name and in a dark brown voice / She said Lola, L-O-L-A, Lola, L-L-Lola…” – The Kinks (Lola)

Run Lola Run (1998): by Tom Tykwer starring Franka Potente

“Three cool cats, three cool cats / Parked on the corner in a beat-up car / Dividing up a nickel candy bar / Talking all about how sharp they are, these / Three cool cats” – The Coasters (Three Cool Cats)

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“And I know I’ll never lose affection / For people and things that went before / I know I’ll often stop and think about them / In my life I loved you more…” – Beatles (In My Life)

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“To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.” ― Mahatma Gandhi