Carlin

“I would paint more farms," said Toulouse-Lautrec, "but they always put them so far from the bar.”
― Christopher Moore, Sacré Bleu: A Comedy d'Art

“Everywhere and always ugliness has its beautiful aspects; it is thrilling to discover them where nobody else has noticed them.”
― Toulouse Lautrec

“Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else. Not everyone will be glad that you did. Members of your family and other critics may wish you had kept your secrets. Oh, well, what are you going to do? Get it all down. Let it pour out of you and onto the page. Write an incredibly shitty, self-indulgent, whiny, mewling first draft. Then take out as many of the excesses as you can.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

“Ich freue mich heute noch, dass es mir gelungen ist, den heutigen Tag noch zu erleben.”
― Karl Valentin