‘The radical evil: that everybody wants to be what they might and could be, and all the rest of mankind to be nothing, indeed, not to exist at all.’

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections

‘… flat eyes that only turned toward the stars to estimate their chemical tonnage.’

Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s

‘Other people are a mistake.’

Quentin Crisp, Resident Alien

‘Does the body rule the mind or does the mind rule the body?

I dunno…’

The Smiths, ‘Still Ill’