"Yes, my dear, I smoke too much, drink too much, used to fuck too much, but you cannot make me feel guilty for loving too much." -E.B.
"Between books and women, I prefer to sleep with books. However, running my fingers across the smooth pages of a book is not the same as running my fingers across her smooth body and feeling the fine hairs raise in excitement!" -E.B.
"My name is Emmanuel Brahmstein and this is the story of how I die." -E.B. in "Mania and Melancholy"
"If I say goodbye, will you love me on the other side…" -E.B., April 17, 2015
“When your heart has found another to make music with you cannot help but think of making symphonies.” -E.B.
Collected Favorite Quotes
“I like flaws and feel more comfortable around people who have them. I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.” ― A. Burroughs
“I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.” ― Franz Kafka
“Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.”― Rod Serling
“You have to die a few time before you can really live.” – Bukowski
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” ―Soren Kierkegaard
“To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.” ―Federico Garcia Lorca, Blood Wedding and Yerma “For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.” - Nietzsche
“Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.”― Anais Nin
“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.” ―Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
“Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself....His task was to discover his own destiny - not an arbitrary one - and to live it out wholly and resolutely within himself. Everything else was only a would-be existence, an attempt at evasion, a flight back to the ideals of the masses, conformity and fear of one's own inwardness.” - Herman Hesse “...and that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength.” -Audre Lourde
“Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.” -Oscar Wilde
"Style" style is the answer to everything -- a fresh way to approach a dull or a dangerous thing. to do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it. -Charles Bukowski