People don’t always like truth tellers. They like performers and people pleasers.

Fascists love violence. They hate art.

If you know someone is sensitive, and your instinct is to trigger them, you are a bad person.

"Now, you know of my deep association and confraternity with the poet Federico Garcia Lorca. I could say that when I was a young man, an adolescent, and I hungered for a voice, I studied the English poets and I knew their work well, and I copied their styles, but I could not find a voice. It was only when -- when I read, even in translation, the works of Lorca that I understood that there was a voice. It is not that I copied his voice; I would not dare. But he gave me permission to find a voice, to locate a voice; that is, to locate a self, a self that that is not fixed, a self that struggles for its own existence.

And as I grew older I understood that instructions came with this voice. What were these instructions? The instructions were never to lament casually. And if one is to express the great inevitable defeat that awaits us all, it must be done within the strict confines of dignity and beauty"-Leonard Cohen.

"My brain, when I write, is completely confused. It struggles at the bottom of a well, trying to find something that will give the song permanence in this world. To bring a song into existence seems difficult. Most successes, however, are simple. But I have not found a simple way to do things. I keep searching. Just because something takes a lot of time does not mean that it is not urgent, it is urgent every minute. That’s why this situation is impossible." Leonard Cohen

I treat others with the same amount of respect I feel is worthy of my own behaviour so it goes above their own expectations. - Marco Almeida

My lapses in judgement are only human in error and it feels like the worst possible contradiction there is. - Marco Almeida

Given the experience subjectivity relies on the personal satisfaction of others. Therein lay life's secret as opposed to opportunism.