“Tear off the mask. Your face is glorious.” Rumi

“When you don’t dress like everybody else, you don’t have to think like everybody else.” – Iris Apfel

All I do is keep running in my own cosy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a pretty wonderful thing. No matter what anybody else says.” Haruki Murakami

“People confuse me. Food doesn't.”

Anthony Bourdain

“…forget your perfect offering, there’s a crack, a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.” Leonard Cohen

“This, then, is all. It’s not enough, I know.

At least I’m still alive, as you may see.

I’m like the man who took a brick to show

how beautiful his house used once to be”

Bertolt Brecht“

“Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.” Cecil Beaton

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so free that your very existence is an act of rebellion” Camus