Latest Quotes

“I just want to be near you, Zoe. Asleep, awake, it doesn't matter.”

— Sarah Heyward, Jordan, Vincent Kartheiser, The Night Girl Finds a Day Boy

“The darkness was her hometown.”

— Sarah Heyward, Zoe, Zoe Chao, The Night Girl Finds a Day Boy

“Sally Owens: You should come around here on Halloween. You'd really see something then. Gary Hallet: Oh, yeah? Sally Owens: Yeah. We all jump off the roof and fly. We kill our husbands too.”

— Adam Brooks, Akiva Goldsman, Robin Swicord, Sally Owens, Sandra Bullock, Practical Magic

“Ted, the truth will set you free. But first, it'll piss you off.”

— Bill Lawrence, Brendan Hunt, Jason Sudeikis, Dr. Sharon Fieldstone, Sarah Niles, Headspace

“My relationship is the oxygen that gives me life.”

— Bill Lawrence, Brendan Hunt, Jason Sudeikis, Leslie Higgins, Jeremy Swift, Headspace

“Placebo, a UK band once known as the “glam-rock Nirvana,” threatened a lawsuit in 2012, claiming that the group ruined his life. The sad-faced man in a flying helmet on the cover of a different 1996 album, Matchbox 20’s Yourself or Someone Like You, reportedly sued in 2005, citing emotional distress…”

— Marc Hogan, A Brief History of Musicians Being Sued by Their Album Cover Subjects

“I must open the little trap-door and let out these linked phrases in which I run together whatever happens so that instead of incoherence there is perceived a wandering thread, lightly joining one thing to another.”

— Virginia Woolf, perceived a wandering thread

“Tell me where you come from Tell me what I've become Tell me where I have gone”

— Dreamcrusher, Tell me where you come from / Tell me what I've become / Tell me where I have gone

“Trapped in society I, I Trapped in society I, I”

— Dreamcrusher, Trapped in society I, I Trapped in society I, I

“Li disliked trying to change others. Since college, he’d derived inspiration from a passage in The Book of Disquiet on how people who are concerned about evil and injustice in the world should begin the campaign against those things at their nearest source—themselves—in a task that would take a life…”

— Tao Lin, Leave Society

“When I came out I was hungry — Nowadays I don't feel nothing”

— Show Me the Body, Dreamcrusher, Hungry

“Stay calm, like a midwife, and try to facilitate the birthlike, surreal, and probably cosmic process. Hundreds of species, possibly, were flashing out of the galaxy every few millennia in an inconspicuous metatwinkling, a shower of lifedrops joining the ocean of immateriality.”

— Tao Lin, a shower of lifedrops joining the ocean of immateriality

“Maybe an infant overmind, made of minds as animals were made of cells, was self-preservationally downloading partnership ideas into society, in part by sprinkling them over urban parks.”

— Tao Lin, Leave Society

“We got the real live shit from front to back.”

— Diddy, The Notorious B.I.G., Busta Rhymes, Victory

“You’ll be affecting people who you wouldn’t expect, not just the people who have the same cross-interacting identities that I do. I didn’t think I’d be affecting the people who were giving me wedgies when I was younger.”

— Luwayne Glass, not just the people who have the same cross-interacting identities that I do

“If you’re a young person moving to New York from Alabama and you do this very weird, niche thing, you should be able to move here and focus on that. And with the way the area’s working right now, you can’t do that. And it’s not fair.”

— Luwayne Glass, you should be able to move here and focus on that

“When people request songs for me to play it’s usually shit I made when I was 20, and I’m like, “You’re still on that? I’ve come out with like 13 records since then.” Like I was saying earlier, all my records are about me at that time, so it’s really hard for me to look back.”

— Luwayne Glass, You’re still on that???

“I like the idea of losing yourself and then finding yourself. The dichotomy of those two things happening in a space or a place that you’re able to transform and change.”

— Luwayne Glass, NIHILIST QUEER REVOLT MUSIK

“My main goal is to make sure that people come away feeling that they’ve experienced something. I wanna take control of the space, and let you know why you are here: get off your phone, stop talking to your friend, spit your gum out. Focus.”

— Luwayne Glass, On losing yourself in order to find yourself

“The symbol gets consumed as pure meta-narrative and stitched into the relevance they need it for. The incoherence of meaning to the broader culture enhances the smaller network’s coherence by requiring greater engagements in how these symbols are being used.”

— Tim Stock, The Flux of All Resistance