“The relations individuals enter into with other individuals nowadays have been described as ‘pure’ – meaning ‘no strings attached’, no unconditional obligations assumed and so no predetermination, and therefore no mortgaging, of the future. The sole foundation and only reason for the relationship to continue is, it has been said, the amount of mutual satisfaction drawn from it.” 

"(...) One can only live while one is intoxicated with life; as soon as one is sober it is impossible not to see that it is all a mere fraud and a stupid fraud! That is precisely what it is: there is nothing either amusing or witty about it, it is simply cruel and stupid."

“What normalization does is transform the morally extraordinary into the ordinary. It makes us able to tolerate what was once intolerable by making it seem as if this is the way things have always been.”

"To write the truth as I see it; to defend the weak against the strong; to fight for justice; and to seek, as best I can to bring healing perspectives to bear on their terrible hates and fears of mankind, in the hope of someday bringing about one world, in which men[and women] will enjoy the differences of the human garden instead of killing each other over them."

"Amor líquido é um amor “até segundo aviso”, o amor a partir do padrão dos bens de consumo: mantenha-os enquanto eles te trouxerem satisfação e os substitua por outros que prometem ainda mais satisfação. O amor com um espectro de eliminação imediata e, assim, também de ansiedade permanente, pairando acima dele. Na sua forma “líquida”, o amor tenta substituir a qualidade por quantidade — mas isso nunca pode ser feito, como seus praticantes mais cedo ou mais tarde acabam percebendo. É bom lembrar que o amor não é um “objeto encontrado”, mas um produto de um longo e muitas vezes difícil esforço e de boa vontade."

"The present age is one of understanding, of reflection, devoid of passion, an age which flies into enthusiasm for a moment only to decline back into indolence."

"Folks, I'm telling you,
birthing is hard
and dying is mean-
so get yourself
a little loving
in between."

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." 

"Art is not a toy, a fashion statement, a decoration. Art is inherently disruptive. Art is dangerous. It can explode in your face. Not that art can be a crime; art must be a crime."

"I don’t have a philosophy. I have a camera. I look into the camera and take pictures. My photographs are fragments of endless possibilities."

"The real people went away
But I'll find a better way, someday
Leaving only me and my dreams"

"Reality is perhaps not at all what I imagine. Perhaps it doesn't exist, in fact. Perhaps it only exists as a longing."

"Quando ambição se confronta com mediocridade, nasce o populismo."

"Arranca metade do meu corpo, do meu coração, dos meus sonhos. 
Tira um pedaço de mim, qualquer coisa que me desfaça. 
Me recria, porque eu não suporto mais pertencer a tudo, mas não caber em lugar algum."

"I don't know how to be myself. It's like I'm permanently outside myself. Like, like you could push your hands straight through me if you wanted to. And I can see the type of man I want to beversus the type of man I actually am and I know that I'm doing it but I'm incapable of what needs to be done."

"Every second that passes is like a door that opens to allow in what has not yet happened, what we call the future, but, to challenge the contradictory nature of what we have just said, perhaps it would be more accurate to say that the future is just an immense void, that the future is just the time on which the eternal present feeds."

"Every sort of contradiction can be found in me, depending upon some twist or attribute: timid, insolent; chaste, lecherous; talkative, taciturn; tough, sickly; clever, dull; drooding, affable; lying, truthful; learned, ignorant; generous, miserly and then prodigal. I can see something of all that in myself, depending on how I gyrate; and anyone who studies himself attentively finds in himself and in this very judgment this whirring about and this discordancy. There is nothing I can say about myself as a whole, simply and completely, without intermingling and admixture."

"I wonder to myself
Could life ever be sane again?"