“If you make money you are always ensured work. It's a capitalist society baby.”— Bret Easton Ellis, reddit.com
“You're not here to line up behind what's cool, you're here to share what you truly love even if people aren't into it at the moment.”— John Mayer, instagram.com
“When you let them do it to you, you're really doing it to them.”— Dawn Kamoche, Ariella Blejer, Amma Crellin, Eliza Scanlen, imdb.com
“Wearing tie-dye makes you feel like you’re mentally and emotionally upstate.”— Emilia Petrarca and Diana Tsui, thecut.com
“I have wasted my life is a cry of triumph—I’m lying here in this hammock doing nothing and haha on you out there working your lives away.”— Patricia Hampl, theparisreview.org
“Eventually, she left her husband, moved to California with her daughter; and became an internationally best-selling author.”— Carina Chocano, amazon.com
“In 2007, a boy came on my tights at a house party and then abruptly stopped talking to me—and I've been obsessed with him ever since.”— Kitty Drake, vice.com
“Before I went under, I asked the anesthesiologist what would happen if I didn’t fall asleep. Most people, she said, wondered what would happen if they never woke up. I told her this seemed like a nonsense question. Who cares? You’ll be dead. Your concerns are minimal.”— Sloane Crosley, thecut.com
“Personally, I like my child friends to be at least seven years old, as there is little difference between what amuses me and what amuses a seven-year-old.”— Sloane Crosley, thecut.com
“For men the answer was always the same, and never farther away than the nearest sword. For a woman, a mother, the way was stonier and harder to know.”— George R. R. Martin, Catelyn Stark, amazon.com
“You can build a whole fucking world on the shit I don’t know. I used to want to appear like I knew everything, and now my favorite answer to give is “I don’t know.” I just love to say, “I don’t know.” It makes life a whole lot easier.”— Erykah Badu, vulture.com
“Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time? My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“I was talking to Spike Jonze the other day, and he was like, 'Yeah, I'm not really doing anything right now. My rule is, if it's not more fun than going surfing, I'm not gonna do it.' I love when I say no to everything.”— Aziz Ansari, gq.com