“I mean, I’ll find out when everybody forgets who I am. And then I walk around crying all day.”— Lena Dunham, amazon.com
“I am big! It's the pictures that got small.”— Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, D.M. Marshman Jr., Norma Desmond, Gloria Swanson, imdb.com
“Henry: Do you have any idea who I am? Lucy: No. Henry: No. That sucks.”— George Wing, Henry Roth, Adam Sandler, imdb.com
“There’s something beautiful about keeping certain aspects of your life hidden. Maybe people and clouds are beautiful because you can’t see everything.”— Kamenashi Kazuya, goodreads.com
“The obscure by the more obscure, the unknown by the more unknown.”— Anonymous, witness.blackmountaininstitute.org
“Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom of something it must be profound.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“The way we view the world, the ultimate barometer of quality is: if it gets shared, it's quality. If someone wants to toil in obscurity, if that makes them happy, that's fine. Not everybody has to change the world.”— Emerson Spartz, newyorker.com