“I missed her so much I wanted to die: a hard, physical longing, like a craving for air underwater.”— Donna Tartt, amazon.com
“I have no definite talent or trade, and how I stay alive is largely a matter of magic.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“A man's soul or lack of it will be evident with what he can carve upon a white sheet of paper.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“Well I'm 34 now. If I don't make it by the time I'm 60 I'm just going to give myself 10 more years.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“I loved you for the way you were not for the way you ought to be.”— Paolo Sorrentino, Cardinal Dussolier, Scott Shepherd, imdb.com
“I feel a lot of things. I don’t know anything. I am scared. Sometimes I am filled with joy. I am worried about the world. I am just trying to be a person.”— Kim Quindlen, thoughtcatalog.com
“Knowledge has entertained me and it has shaped me and it has failed me. Something in me still starves.”— Mary Oliver, amazon.com
“Name a bigger act of hubris than turning down $3 billion when you’re a 23-year-old college dropout.”— Kaitlin Menza, vogue.com
“New York has closed itself off to the young and struggling… New York City has been taken away from you … So my advice is: Find a new city.”— Patti Smith, amazon.com
“There aren't any big words in [my] book... And it's not that I don't know those words. I just don't talk like that.”— Cat Marnell, rollingstone.com
“The market, I am told, just doesn't demand this kind of book... because white kids won't buy a book with a black kid on the cover -- or so The Market says, despite millions of music albums that are sold in just that way.”— Daniel Jose Older, amazon.com
“Oh, I can’t help quoting you because everything that you said rings true.”— Morrissey, open.spotify.com
“I've come to understand that what is most beautiful about people has to do with who they are naturally, and least to do with my preconception.”— Jock Sturges, amazon.com
“Look up. Do you see the sky? Do you see God? No? No matter. Now look at the person next to you. Look joyfully upon him, and remember what Saint Augustine said: "If you want to see God, you have the means to do it. God is love.”— Paolo Sorrentino, Cardinal Voiello, Silvio Orlando, imdb.com
“I’ve read Nora Ephron; I know how this movie ends. The credits roll and there we all are: accomplished older women, standing in front of our mirrors, pulling at our turkey-wattles, feeling bad.”— Stella Bugbee, nymag.com