“Good is what you like, Evil is what you don’t like.”
-Anton Lavey
"There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad."
-Salvadore Dali
"For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
-Francis Bacon
"A man who doesn't love easily, loves too much."
-Agent Dale Cooper [Twin Peaks]
"Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company."
-Lord Byron
"When one subtracts from life infancy, sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning -- how much remains of downright existence?"
-Lord Byron
"I never met a person who loved everybody I didn't dislike."
-Anton LaVey
"It's hard to be evil in a world that's already gone to hell."
-Anton LaVey
"Death hates being taken for a whore."
-Dom Pomperno [Marquis]
"Man is the only animal in whom the law of self-preservation is enacted after he has willingly subjected himself to the machinations of his destruction."
-Anton LaVey
"I reserve the right to be a lonely man."
-H. L. Mencken
"Never send to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls because someone is getting paid to pull the rope."
-Anton LaVey
"Do I look like someone who cares what god thinks?"
-Pinhead [Hellraiser]
"Reality is that which refuses to go away when I stop believing in it."
-Phillip K. Dick
"If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use those words."
-Phillip K. Dick
"Insanity is repeating the same behavior, yet expecting different results."
-Albert Einstein
"It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
-Albert Einstein
"You'd pay to know what you really think."
-J.R. Dobbs
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking up at the stars."
-Oscar Wilde
"You can show an idiot the moon, but all they will see is your finger pointing."
-Ancient Chinese Proverb
"I have seen the dark universe yawning, where the dark planets roll without aim- where they roll in their horror unheeded, without knowledge or luster or name."
-H.P. Lovecraft
"I will show you fear in a handful of dust."
-T.S. Eliot
"Be careful... many go astray in the dark; especially when it is so thick you can cut it with a knife."
-Henry David Thoreau
"Revenge is a dish best eaten cold."
-English Proverb
"Any fool with fast hands can take a tiger by the balls, but it takes a hero to keep on squeezing."
-Stephen King
"The sleep of reason breeds monsters."
-Goya
"Death is a mystery. Burial is a secret."
-Stephen King
"Forced intimacy is an ugly thing."
-Nicole Blackman
"Never forget what they did to you and never let them know you remember."
-Nicole Blackman
"Words are tickets to spend time."
-Nicole Blackman
"Life is easy when you don't care about the future."
-Silke Bischoff
"Time doesn't move in a picture."
-Silke Bischoff
"I wanna be everything. I wanna be everywhere. I wanna fuck everyone in the world. I wanna do something that matters."
-Trent Reznor
"I'm not a man, or machine. I'm just something in between."
-Loverboy
"What lies behind us and what lies in front of us pales in comparison to what lies within us."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"True art can be described and experienced, never explained. You feel it or not. Wonder does not lead to certitude. It is a state of mind, like being in love."
-Peter de Bolla
"Did you exchange a walk-on part in a war, for a lead role in a cage?"
-Pink Floyd
"Good luck is when opportunity meets preparation."
-Robert Evans
"It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality."
-Virginia Woolf
"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?"
-Jeremiah 17:9
"Flesh is but the glasse that holds the dust."
-George Herbert
"If you know you have an unpleasant nature and dislike people, this is no obstacle to work."
-J.G. Bennett
"I don't like to think of people suffering, but then they do. They breed at such a rate that they are bound to suffer."
-Francis Bacon
"I do believe today modern man wants a sensation, really, without the boredom of its conveyance... or to cut down conveyance so you just give into sensation."
-Francis Bacon
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those timid spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much."
-Theodore Roosevelt
"No matter how far a jackass travels, it will never return a horse."
-Batou [Ghost In the Shell 2]
"Intellectual excellence is achieved in concert with cataclysmic terror; not in avoidance of it."
-H.P. Lovecraft
"In America, sex is an obsession. In other parts of the world, it is a fact."
-Marlene Deitrich
"To get out of a lie, you must lie again. There is no need to get out of the truth."
-David Kroll
"We shall not cease from exploration, And the end of all our exploring, Will be to arrive where we started, And know the place for the first time."
-T.S. Eliot
"The Servant waits, while the Master baits."
-Empress Nympho [History of the World, Part 1]
"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
-George Orwell
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, and third, it is accepted as self-evident."
-Arthur Schopenhauer
"Resolve is never stronger than in the morning after the night it was never weaker."
-Johnny [Naked]
"Mankind is just a component of the device by which the devil creates itself."
-Johnny [Naked]
"The notion which seems clearest to us is only a shimmer of light between two abysses."
-J.M. Bourgery
"People choose the paths that gain them the greatest rewards for the least amount of effort."
-Dr. Gregory House [House M.D.]
"Entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity."
-Occam's Razor
"The Five Stages of Grief: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance."
-Elisabeth Kübler-Ross M.D.
"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly."
-Henri Bergson
"There is nothing like a dream to create the future."
-Victor Hugo
"Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always."
-Dante Alighieri
"Beauty awakens the soul to act."
-Dante Alighieri
"Heat cannot be separated from fire, nor beauty from The Eternal."
-Dante Alighieri
"The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time."
-Dante Alighieri
"My soul tasted that heavenly food, which gives new appetite while it satiates."
-Dante Alighieri
"The secret of joy is the mastery of pain."
-Anais Nin
"Anxiety is love's greatest killer."
-Anais Nin
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
-Anais Nin
"I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing."
-Anais Nin
"I will not be just a tourist, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy."
-Anais Nin
"I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way."
-Anais Nin
"It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see."
-Anais Nin
"Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat."
-Anais Nin
"The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself."
-Anais Nin
"The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery."
-Anais Nin
"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say."
-Anais Nin
"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
-Anais Nin
"The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries."
-Marquis de Sade
"To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell."
-Marquis de Sade
"Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced."
-Marquis de Sade
"Never will the intellect's sophistries blot out the soul's impulsions."
-Marquis de Sade
"Goodness is never but a weakness of which the ingratitude and impertinence of the feeble always force honest folk to repent."
-Marquis de Sade
"Work, for the night is coming."
-Edward Gorey
"Many too many alternatives, but no choices."
-Patrick White
"Humankind can only bear so much reality."
-T. S. Eliot
"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams."
-Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy
"To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting."
-Stanislaw Leszczynski
"Meaning is not in things, but in between them."
-Norman Brown
"There is no exquisite beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."
-Sir Francis Bacon
"All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Artists must lie to show the truth. Politicians lie to cover it up."
-Unknown
"How do you know if something is indestructible, even before it is destroyed?"
-Unknown
"Art is something new that inspires reflection of something familiar."
-Unknown
"To understand and accept one's weaknesses is to truly know strength."
-Anonymous
"If you don't expect something to work, you've already given it reason to fail."
-Anonymous
"Integrity is how you behave when no one is watching but you."
-Anonymous
"Many are happy to stick their nose into your personal life, but very few actually care about the details."
-Anonymous
"God doesn't bless... he just puts you out of your misery."
-Anonymous
"Find your desires, and be free to move forward without hesitation."
-Anonymous
"Too many excuses, not enough sacrifice."
-Anonymous
"There's no lie in a question, only an answer."
-Anonymous
"Philosophy doesn't tell you what to think, only how to think."
-Anonymous
"The virtuous man dreams what the wicked man actualizes."
-Anonymous
"The presence of an observer changes the very nature of that which is being observed."
-Erwin Schroedinger
"The universe has 3 dimensions, but perception reveals unlimited dimensions."
-Sergei Eisenstein
"The junction of two equals a greater product, not their sum."
-Sergei Eisenstein
"Be as you wish to seem."
-Socrates
"Whether you think you can or you can't, you're right."
-Henry Ford
"Keep your words soft and sweet just in case you have to eat them."
-Amish Proverb
"By perseverance the snail reached the ark."
-Amish Proverb
"Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without."
-Amish Proverb
"A task takes as long as it takes."
-Amish Proverb
"Beware of the man who knows the answer before he understands the question."
-Amish Proverb
"A good day is when no one shows up, and you don't have to go anywhere"
-Burt Shavitz
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STAGE PROJECTS
2015 NBA All-Star Concert, Christina Aguilera Feat. NAS
Media Director: Raj Kapoor, Screens Producer: Allucinari/Mark Allen
Screen Animation: Mechanical Whispers/Robert Morris, Airdate: February 15th, 2015
56th Annual Grammy Awards, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis
Media Director: Raj Kapoor, Screens Producer: Allucinari/Mark Allen
Screen Animation: Mechanical Whispers/Robert Morris, Airdate: January 26th, 2014
55th Annual Grammy Awards, Carrie Underwood
Performance Director: Raj Kapoor, Screens Producer: Allucinari/Mark Allen
Screen Animation: Mechanical Whispers/Robert Morris, Airdate: February 10th, 2013
2014 American Music Awards, Pitbull Featuring Ne-Yo
Performance Director: Raj Kapoor, Screens Producer: Allucinari/Mark Allen
Screen Animation: Mechanical Whispers/Robert Morris, Airdate: November 23rd, 2014
65th Primetime Emmy Awards, Opening House Look
Media Director: Raj Kapoor, Screens Producer: Allucinari/Mark Allen
Screen Animation: Mechanical Whispers/Robert Morris, Airdate: September 22nd, 2013