I laugh maniacally, then take a deep breath and touch my chest- expecting a heart to be thumping quickly, impatiently, but there's nothing there, not even a beat.

Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

Debbie Harry, 1977

Gould chose solitude as the subject of his first radio program, The Idea of North, which was broadcast by the CBC in 1967. He was attracted to perfect solitude in its extreme and saw his own compromises—watching television, for example—as weaknesses. He saw himself as a hermit, though his withdrawal from the world was imperfect. In the act of making the documentary, he expressed his reverence for the true ascetic.
- Glenn Gould , Variations on Solitude

Empire, Andy Warhol, 1965

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
- Hunter S. Thompson

Franco Mattichio, Untitled (2014)

50s Boeing

Production Still from 8 ½ (1963), Federico Fellini, Barbara Steele and Marcello Mastroianni

1970s - photos by Stephen Shore

When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn't have you by the throat.

Elise Crombez in “Knee High", by Helmut Hewton for Vogue July (2003)