Gilbert De Botton Quotes & Sayings

Science has now confirmed what philosophers, mystics, and other intuitive people have long declared: every human being has been literally "engineered for success" by his Creator. Every human being has access to a power greater than himself. — Maxwell Maltz

Gilbert and George said: "But don't you see? That's how Bacon is. He is absolutely right to behave as he wants." Not as he wants. As he has to behave. An artist must be open to the muse. The greater the artist, the more he is open to "cosmic currents." He has to behave as he does. If he has "the courage to be an artist," he is committed to behave as the mood possesses him. "That's the man who booed Princess Margaret!" - the peasantry shrink back from his sulfurous glow. — William S. Burroughs

Me? I go wherever the wind blows ... and wherever the whiskey shots are half price. — Nicki Elson

Life isn't worth living if you're scared all the time.
-Jordan — Sara Shepard

Harry understood that those left behind - the failures and the deformed, the suffering and the dead - are not just equal in soul, but that they are we and we are they. Struggle as we may for distinction, soon enough we fail, and, without exception, follow. — Mark Helprin

People often forget this - a vinyl album could only contain a maximum of 20 minutes per side! — Ken Hensley