Jules, y'know, honey... this isn't real. You know what it is? It's St. Elmo's Fire. Electric flashes of light that appear in dark skies out of nowhere. Sailors would guide entire journies by it, but the joke was on them... there was no fire. There wasn't even a St. Elmo. They made it up. They made it up because they thought they needed it to keep them going when times are tough, just like you're making up all of this. We're all going through this. It's our time at the edge
. Billy in St. Elmo's Fire

I think that in a lot of ways the Seattle scene was a turn-the-gun-on-itself scene. It was born out of the punk rock bible, where being a rock star is a bad thing. So we couldn't enjoy our success because we weren't really supposed to. You had to pretend success was fucked. We all became very self-conscious. I wish now that we'd had a better attitude about it.
Chris Cornell
Raygun, September 1999

We may be done with the past, but the past ain't done with us.
Magnolia

Believe me, every man has his secret sorrows, which the world knows not; and oftimes we call a man cold when he is only sad.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

All books are alike in that they are truer than if they had happened, and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.
Ernest Hemingway

DISAPPEARING ONE
What have you done my little spark
Cursing my name 'cause again I put you out
Falling apart, you tell yourself you are
Dreaming only of the ones who never dream of you
I'm your disappearing one
Vanish when the curtain's drawn
But I will come again and you will let me in
And you'll see I never disappear for long
Into your room I stumble now
Too tired to cower and it's too late to draw you out
And there you lie like a painting of Christ
Bleeding on the heads of the ones who nailed you down
I'm your disappearing one
Vanish when the curtain's drawn
But I will come again and you will let me in
And you'll see I never disappear for long.
Chris Cornell
Euphoria Morning

"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair."
Douglas Adams, revealing one of the laws of computers and programming in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

"A Mexican newspaper reports that bored Royal Air Force pilots stationed on the Falkland Islands have devised what they consider a marvelous new game. Noting that the local penguins are fascinated by airplanes, the pilots search out a beach where the birds are gathered and fly slowly along it at the water's edge. Perhaps ten thousand penguins turn their heads in unison watching the planes go by, and when the pilots turn around and fly back, the birds turn their heads in the opposite direction, like spectators at a slow-motion tennis match. Then, the paper reports, "The pilots fly out to sea and directly to the penguin colony and overfly it. Heads go up, up, up, and ten thousand penguins fall over gently onto their backs."
Audobon Society Magazine

Without order nothing can exist - without chaos nothing can evolve.
Unknown

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
Unknown

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
Jules de Gaultier

"Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them."
Nathaniel Hawthorne

People don't realize how much fun it is to be depressed.
Chris Cornell
Details, December 1996

"We don't live in the world of reality, we live in the world of how we perceive reality."
Bryan Singer, director of "The Usual Suspects"

The thought that somebody might 'get it wrong' doesn't bother me at all.
Chris Cornell
Request June, 1996

"Even on the road to hell, flowers can make you smile."
Deng Ming-Dao