“When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.”

Source: The Sacred Journey: A Memoir of Early Days (1982)

Source: Water for Elephants

The She-Ancient, in Pt. V
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
Context: Art is the magic mirror you make to reflect your invisible dreams in visible pictures. You use a glass mirror to see your face: you use works of art to see your soul. But we who are older use neither glass mirrors nor works of art. We have a direct sense of life. When you gain that you will put aside your mirrors and statues, your toys and your dolls.

source http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10464376/radioheads_thom_yorke_on_going_solo/2
On the record industry.

Source: 100 Love Sonnets

Donna Giovanna, Act IV, scene iii.

Source: The Artist's Way