Latest Quotes

“The benefit of control and self-sovereignty—is its own kind of freedom.”

— Ryan Holiday, 29 Pieces Of Life Changing Advice I Collected By My 29th Birthday

“It’s easy to take things at face value. The accountant says this is what you owe. Your employee says this is how things are. People say this is the only way it can be done. Accepting implicitly is a great way to find yourself in deep shit.”

— Ryan Holiday, 29 Pieces Of Life Changing Advice I Collected By My 29th Birthday

“What makes a media company a media company and not a technology company or an ‘investment’ is that media companies have to explicitly straddle the lines of culture and commerce. They must produce meaning and money. They have to stand for something in the cultural realm beyond utility.”

— Chris Lavergne, The Founder of Thought Catalog on BuzzFeed, HuffPost and the Future of Digital Media

“If Asian-Americans — and other minority actors more broadly — are not even allowed to be in a movie, how can they build the necessary box office clout in the first place?”

— Keith Chow, Why Won’t Hollywood Cast Asian Actors?

“A soul mate isn’t just someone we love. As for our grandparents, there are probably lots of people out there whom we could settle down with and, in the fullness of time, grow to love. But we want more than love. We want a lifelong wingman/ wingwoman who completes us and can handle the truth, to mix…”

— Aziz Ansari, Modern Romance

“If I had been a young person a few generations ago, I would have gotten married pretty young. Most likely, I would have wound up marrying some girl who lived in my neighborhood in my hometown of Bennettsville, South Carolina, around the time I was twenty-three. She would have been even younger, whic…”

— Aziz Ansari, Modern Romance

“After the rings, the priest should just say, ‘Enjoy it, bing-bongs. Due to our brain’s tendency toward hedonic adaptation, you won’t feel quite this giddy in a few years. All right, where’s the pigs in a blanket? I’m outta here.”

— Aziz Ansari, Modern Romance

“The vows in this wedding were powerful. They were saying the most remarkable, loving things about each other. Things like ‘You are a prism that takes the light of life and turns it into a rainbow’ or ‘You are a lotion that moisturizes my heart. Without you, my soul has eczema.’ It was the noncheesy,…”

— Aziz Ansari, Modern Romance

“You can know anything. It's all there. You just have to find it.”

— Neil Gaiman, The Sandman

“If we could all have lifelong passionate love, the world would collapse. We’d stay in our apartments lovingly staring at our partners while the streets filled with large animals and homeless children eating out of the garbage.”

— Aziz Ansari, Modern Romance

“I must confess, I have always wondered what lay beyond life, my dear. Yeah, everybody wonders. And sooner or later everybody gets to find out.”

— Neil Gaiman, The Sandman

“So love goes from feeling like I’m doing cocaine to feeling how I feel about my uncle? I don’t want to make companionate love sound like a bummer. It is love, just less intense and more stable. There is still passion, but it’s balanced with trust, stability, and an understanding of each other’s flaw…”

— Aziz Ansari, Modern Romance

“Some things are too big to be seen; some emotions are too huge to be felt.”

— Neil Gaiman, The Sandman

“It is sometimes a mistake to climb; it is always a mistake never even to make the attempt. If you do not climb, you will not fall. This is true. But is it that bad to fail, that hard to fall?”

— Neil Gaiman, The Sandman

“At a certain point the brain rebalances itself. It stops pumping out adrenaline and dopamine and you start feeling like you did before you fell in love. The passion you first felt starts to fade. Your brain is like, ALL RIGHT!! We get it, we get it. She’s great, blah, blah, blah.”

— Aziz Ansari, Modern Romance

“It’s part of growing up, I suppose… You always have to leave something behind you.”

— Neil Gaiman, The Sandman

“You attend the funeral, you bid the dead farewell. You grieve. Then you continue with your life. And at times the fact of her absence will hit you like a blow to the chest, and you will weep. But this will happen less and less as time goes on. She is dead. You are alive. So live.”

— Neil Gaiman, The Sandman

“I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.”

— Neil Gaiman, The Sandman

“We do what we do, because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves.”

— Neil Gaiman, The Sandman

“There are some as are what they are. And there are some as aren't what they seem to be. And there are some as only seem to be what they seem to be.”

— Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders