“There are things in me, things I was designed to do that are just out of my reach.”— Charles Yu, Lisa Joy, Maeve Millay, Thandie Newton, imdb.com
“I just rolled out of bed to call and tell you, that I want you so much more than I did yesterday.”— 8 Bit Stories, facebook.com
“For us to have had this opportunity and to be able to make this much change, as much as we wish that we could have gotten everything done, it’s remarkable.”— Barack Obama, newyorker.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 love only you, I’m happy only in dreams of you, you are my joy and my world, this is as certain and real as being aware of one’s being alive.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com
“I got a bumper sticker on my chest that says 'no regrets' 'no regrets'”— Mason Jennings, open.spotify.com
“There is no secret password to being a writer. There is no secret code. You just do it.”— Lynee Tillman, thecreativeindependent.com
“Brb, attempting to fill the aching void with shit that will only make it bigger.”— so sad today, twitter.com
“The first steps of a creative act are like groping in the dark: random and chaotic, feverish and fearful, a lot of busy-ness with no apparent or definable end in sight.”— Twyla Tharp, amazon.com
“Take the 1st job you can in the industry you want to get into. The job doesn't matter, getting your foot in the door does.”— Wes Craven, twitter.com
“I worry that 'conflict of interest’ gets overly weaponized in our politics. I think in many cases, when there’s a conflict of interest, it’s an indication that someone understands something way better than if there’s no conflict of interest. If there’s no conflict of interest, it’s often because you…”— Peter Thiel, nytimes.com
“One of my good friends said, ‘Peter, do you realize how crazy this is, how everybody thinks this is crazy?’ I was like: ‘Well, why am I wrong? What’s substantively wrong with this?’ And it all got referred back to ‘Everybody thinks Trump’s really crazy.’ So it’s like there’s a shortcut, which is: ‘I…”— Peter Thiel, nytimes.com
“I thought becoming myself was improving each part piece by piece. But it was finding a hidden wholeness seeing the fractures as the design.”— Brianna Wiest, twitter.com
“No one grinds harder than the sun though. Straight up, no sick days, and shining 24/7.”— YA BOY BILL NYE, twitter.com