Andrew Eason

Leston Havens: “you can do a whole psychotherapy centered around one question. “What do you want?” Choosing which of those four words to put emphasis on ... takes the discussion in four completely different directions”

Quoted in driven to distraction at work - Hallowell

Samuel Johnson observed, “All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.”

“You start out as a phony and become real.” —Glenn O’Brien

When we take on an identity, it isn't because the identity is true, it's because we're making an accommodation between ourselves and a world that cannot stop scrutinizing difference.

— mittens , in http://metafilter.com/208222/Requeering-Oscar-Wilde#8705709

As Salvador Dalí said, “Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.”

“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn.” —T. S. Eliot

“Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find your self.” —Yohji Yamamoto

Some might say that a home to which one cannot return is the only true hometown. ... This church would welcome this person to sit in the center of the building, where he could rest, reflect, ponder, and murmur. It would say to him, “If you continue going away, and want to go even further, then this church will follow along behind you. You don’t

“When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully,” per Samuel Johnson.