"We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn’t use irony to reduce their power." ― Manuel Puig Topic(s): Experience Tags: should, understand More From Manuel Puig "What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don’t they?" "I don’t think humor is forced upon my universe; it’s a part of it." "Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing." More In Experience "War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it."― Desiderius Erasmus "My experience of life is that it’s very fragmented; certain kinds of things happen, and in another place, a different kind of thing occurs. I would like my work to have some vivid indication of those differences."― Jasper Johns "In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised."― Edward Bond