Your necklace may break, the fau tree may burst, but my tattooing is indestructible. It is an everlasting gem that you will take into your grave. – Verse from a traditional tattoo artist’s song, as quoted on pbs.org, “Skin
Women, don’t get a tattoo. That butterfly looks great on your breast when you’re twenty or thirty, but when you get to seventy, it stretches into a condor. – Billy Elmer
The tattoo attracts and also repels precisely because it is different. – Margo DeMello, Bodies of Inscription: A Cultural History of the Modern Tattoo Co
My therapist says I still havent got in touch with my anger. Maybe one day Im going to explode. But Im still really happy. I know it looks like a strange and painful upbringing – all those experiences led me to the paths that Im on now. – Drew Barrymore
Climate change is a global issue – from the point of view of the Earths climate, a molecule of CO2 emitted in Bejing is the same as a molecule emitted in Sydney. – Jeff Goodell
