“Schubert's music challenges and shatters the ways of the world. That's the essence of Romanticism, and Schubert's music is the epitome of the Romantic.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Now all my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large. To me there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form—and the local human passions and conditions and standards—are d…”— H. P. Lovecraft, hplovecraft.com
“Pornography is far less dangerous than romanticism. Both are fantasies; both have weak premises. But romanticism is why three out of four marriages wind up in divorce court—sexual unhappiness being one cause. Pornography tries to depict some reality, however. Naturally, it too can be misused, but I…”— Al Goldstein, filthy.media
“It's normal to be screwed up, but it's really screwed up to romanticize it.”— David Shore, Eli Attie, Dr. Gregory House, Hugh Laurie, amazon.com
“I desire to make images because I desire to find and to be found by you despite the risk. The distance between you and I will never be subsumed but we can take steps and make glances towards each other, send smoke signals, like Gatsby reaching out towards that single green light, minute and far awa…”— Jeremy Schlangen, static1.squarespace.com
“I have sought with all due insistence to impress upon you, as a maxim, the simple truth that the heart is greater, worthier, nobler, finer than the head: that the heart is the sanctuary of the Temple of Man, the head its portal. That from the heart comes forth Sympathy into the open: the subtlest, t…”— Louis H Sullivan, amazon.com