Inspiration

Piss off Satan, and don't take me for dumber than I look.
                    ~ W.S. Burroughs

O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, how can we tell the dancer from the dance?
                   ~ W.B. Yeats.

What a poisonous woman you are! With an answer for everything.
                   ~ Sartre "No Exit"

Dance with the Devil, and the Devil don't change. The Devil changes you.
                   ~ "8mm"

One day, you look at the person and see more than you did the day before, like a switch was flickered somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is suddenly the only person you can imagine yourself with.
                  ~ Chris Carter

It is not enough to conquer, one must also know how to seduce.
                 ~ Voltaire

If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
                 ~ Flo Kennedy

We are what we pretend to be.
                 ~ Kurt Vonnegut JR

The unnatural, that too is natural.
              ~ Goethe

"You'll see what we want you to see--just enough to make you nervous, just enough to raise the hackles on your flesh, just enough for you to understand that it is foreign beyond your comprehending, that there is power beyond your control, erotic, dark, frantic power, just a brief glimpse of the true face and nothing more. Not the real thing, not for you. You can dread it, you can want it, you can turn away sickened, but you'll never see it really. Why? Because we choose to keep you out."
           ~Gabriel Knight

Intimacy is being comfortable with people rummaging through your soul.
        -- Allison Quinnell

Behind the corpse in the reservoir, behind the ghost on the links,
Behind the woman who dances and the man who madly drinks,
Under the fatigue, the attack of migraine and the sigh,
There is always another story, there is more than meets the eye.
WH Auden: At Last the Secret is Out

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
- Philip K. Dick

Few men are sufficiently discerning to appreciate all the evil they do.
--Francois de la Rochefoucauld.

What a poisonous woman you are! With an answer for everything.
-- "No Exit" by Sartre

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.
~Alfred North Whitehead

Yield to temptation; it may not pass your way again
~ Robert Heinlein

"Friendship is one mind in two bodies"
                             ~Menicus

I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomanical, tactless, volatile, and ofttimes disagreeable. I suppose I'm larger than life.
        -- Bette Davis

Dancing is a sweet job.
-- Fred Astaire

I always had a pretty good knack for raising hell.
      -- Brandon Lee

You get tough in this business, until you get big enough to hire people to get tough for you. Then you can sit back and be a lady.
      ~Natalie Wood

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.
     - Audrey Hepburn

"The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to love, mad to talk, mad to be saved; the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars."
   -- Jack Kerouac