1. Some people’s fame and success is really just a barometer for what a mess the world is.

2. “A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition. A text remains, moreover, forever imperceptible.”
Derrida, Platos’s Pharmacy

3. “We forget too easily that a thinker is more essentially effective where he is opposed than where he finds agreement.”
Heidegger, What Is Called Thinking?
4. “One of Cassavetes’ strengths, which he had in common with many great artists, was his stubborn phobia about being ackowledged by any form of right-on thinking, no matter where it came from.”
Olivier Assayas on John Cassavetes

5. In Outlaw Culture, bell hooks points out that we should be suspicious of any film (its politics) that wins an Oscar, for whatever gets unanimous praise is rarely progressive.

6. “A man for whom nearly all books have become superficial, who has kept faith in only a few people of the past that they have had depth enough–not to write what they knew.”
Nietzsche, Notebooks, GW XIV, p. 229, Aphorism 464 of 1885.

7. “They all talk about me…but nobody gives me a thought.”
Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra
