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“Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress.”
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“I don't want a future, I want a present. To me this appears of greater value. You have a future only when you have no present, and when you have a present, you forget to even think about the future.”
Source : Robert Walser, Susan Bernofsky (2009). “The Tanners”, p.72, New Directions Publishing
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“The American Constitution is remarkable for its simplicity; but it can only suffice a people habitually correct in their actions, and would be utterly inadequate to the wants of a different nation. Change the domestic habits of the Americans, their religious devotion, and their high respect for morality, and it will not be necessary to change a single letter in the Constitution in order to vary the whole form of their government.”
Source : Francis Grund (2007). “Americans”, p.307, Applewood Books
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“The window of the soul cleansed perfectly and made completely transparent by the divine light”
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“The only one who can beat me is me.”
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“I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was very basic. All I wanted was drums and another guitar, and I was just going to sing”
Source : "Tete-A-Tete: Thurston Moore Interview By Jay Ferguson". Interview with Jay Ferguson, www.chartattack.com. August 1, 1998. 
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“A faith that does not result in activity of any kind is a dead faith; it is empty, worthless, insincere.”
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“An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half... I never write metropolis for seven cents, because I can get the same money for city. I never write policeman, because I can get the same price for cop.... I never write valetudinarian at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen.”
