“To give and create with no intent of receiving a reward is the purest form of ALOHA.”— Sheldon Simeon, instagram.com
“The two biggest influences in my life are magazines and addiction treatment. Those are the two main forces I’ve had looping in my brain, that have shown me how the world works.”— Cat Marnell, washingtonpost.com
“I read till all hours if I want to. If I get up at five and I can't sleep and I want to work, I go out and I go to work. So I work, I'm on call. I'm like a doctor and it's an emergency. And I'm the emergency.”— Phillip Roth, newyorker.com
“I reject the idea that the pot is nearly at a boil and I must watch it closely until the exact moment that it happens.”— Ryan Holiday, observer.com
“We rewrite what we wanted out of life and decide it's really boys who smell like cigarettes.”— Ari Eastman, amazon.com
“You think I’ll be the dark sky so you can be the star? I’ll swallow you whole.”— Warsan Shire, amazon.com
“Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That’s one of my favorite things to say. So what.”— Andy Warhol, en.wikiquote.org
“The best filter isn’t BuzzFeed, or The Atlantic, or whatever. The best filter is money. That is how you say “I love you.” This is America. This is a capitalist country. We say “I’m sorry” with money. We say “I love you” with money.”— Elizabeth Wurtzel, buzzfeed.com
“It is three at night. I have something to say. You are so valuable. You shine out. You are a magic star. You are a body of blood made beautiful. How I admire, sit back and adore you. How thirsty I am for that. How you feed me.”— Anne Sexton, chrissystockton.com
“Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running - that’s the way to live.”— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com