“There’s still time to find him. And people assuming Marc’s dead doesn’t make him dead. How often does Marc hold to the status quo?”
“Criticism is like politics: if you don't make your own you are by default accepting the status quo and are finally yourself responsible for whatever the status quo does to you.”
“There is a ruthlessness to the creative act. It often involves a betrayal of the status quo.”
“I love her.” “She’s dead.” “That doesn’t mean to me what it does to other people.”
“Successful people are inspired people; they are unwilling to accept the “status quo.”
“A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. but it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and don’t try to hold him, that he cant escape from”