O viajante global vive num mundo mais pequeno que o camponês. Respira em todo o lado um ar local. Londres é um local que se pode comparar a Chicago, Chicago é um local que se pode comparar a Tombuctu. Mas Tombuctu não é um lugar, pelo menos para os que lá vivem e que a vêem como o universo, e que lá respiram, não um ar local, mas os ventos do mundo.
—G.K. Chesterton, Hereges, 1905
The director, Michael Mann, said: “Your character has scenes with Al Pacino, but if Al doesn’t like you, you can’t be in the movie. So we’re going to have lunch to see if he likes you.” I’m like: “Uh? When?” He goes: “We’re leaving now.” We walked out with my jaw on the floor and went to some high-class Italian restaurant in Beverly Hills.
Al’s like: “Call me Al.” At the end of the lunch, he goes: “Michael, I like him.” Every day on set, I’d go: “How are you, sir?” Al would put his hand on my shoulder, say: “Henry, not so good,” and tell me in great detail about how he’d pulled a muscle in his arm. He was hilarious to be around. There’s one scene where I’m handcuffed, so Al would sit on a couch and keep me company while I was being unlocked: “Someone give me a magic marker. I’m gonna draw a moustache on Henry.”
— Henry Rollins, The Guardian, 23 de Março de 2023
À Yale, la direction a carrément supprimé un cours dédié à l’histoire de l’art en raison «du malaise des étudiants face à un “canon” occidental idéalisé, produit d’un cadre d’artistes, majoritairement blancs, masculins, hétérosexuels et européens». À la place seron abordées les «questions de genre, de classe et de race», en lien avec le climat.
—Amaury Brelet, Valeurs Actuelles, Janeiro de 2023
You have no idea how stand-offish I can be with people I don’t love. I have brought it to a fine art. But you have broken down my defences. And I don’t really resent it.
—Vita Sackville-West, carta para Virginia Woolf, 21 de Janeiro de 1926
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
—Helen Schucman, A Course in Miracles, New Leaf, 2008