I am really such a blind ass that never, in all these years, have I noticed anything of the entire vodoo cult, with its veneration of the snake and its thousand human sacrifices. And there my little tender Adelaide plays the part of the cruel priestess, invokes the holy snake, chokes children, drinks rum like an old ship’s captain and manages unheard of orgies!
— Hanns Heinz Ewers
In this way Botticelli’s vision seizes upon the ideal limits of the time in which the action is supposed to take place and from this arises an impression in his representation of the image as of indefinite duration of the said action, and in this way reality becomes dream and history myth.
–Roberto Salvini
Most of my fears drained away when I saw her. They always did. In those pajamas, with her blond hair loose around her face, she looked like an extremely healthy angel, a sort of celestial hockey captain.
–Patrick Quentin
It presumably wasn’t the drugs, per se, which caused the authorities such vindictive consternation. It was more the altered state of consciousness with which they are associated. Capitalist ideologies function by the manipulative means of keeping the collective immersed in real time.
–Jeremy Reed
Here there is a greater feeling of purpose and contentment, well represented by the balance struck between symbolic overstatement and the possibilities of real life.
–T.G. Powell
Their languid grace and dream filled eyes haunt the imagination and defy analysis.
–Jean Seznec
She had a dress on which did nothing to interfere with the girl underneath, and the girl underneath knew all this very well.
–Peter Rabe
The goddess has fled on her golden conch
The sea casts her adored image back to us
And the sky shines under Iris’s scarf
—Nerval
A Leak In The Safe 