"You invite things to happen. You open the door. You inhale. And if you inhale the chaos, you give the chaos, the chaos gives back."

#Doors Quotes #Giving Quotes #Chaos Quotes

“I've been very careful about what I say yes to and what I say no to. And I think seriously always about... this may be a good idea right now or it may be a lot of money right now, but will it be good for me five years from now? Will it be fun? Will it make me hate myself? I think about all of those things.”
“Minds, like diapers, need occasional changing.”
“We can't spy on them if they aren't spying on us, now can we?" Warped logic, but okay.”
“I thought everyone would be familiar with this figure: if I'd studied a thing in school I assumed it was general knowledge. I hadn't yet discovered that I lived in a sort of transparent balloon, drifting over the world without making much contact with it, and that the people I knew appeared to me at a different angle from the one at which they appeared to themselves; and that the reverse was also true. I was smaller to others, up there in my balloon, than I was to myself. I was also blurrier.”
“Joan Crawford is a movie queen. I had never met one before. I know now what I don't want to be.”
“Wherever the enemy goes let our troops go also.”
“And although it might be best of all to be Socrates satisfied, having both happiness and depth, we would give up some happiness in order to gain the depth.”
“Imagine taking off your makeup and nobody knows who you are.”

You may also like:

David Foster Wallace
Novelist
David Sedaris
Humorist
Jonathan Lethem
Novelist
Jonathan Safran Foer
Writer
Maurice Sendak
Illustrator
Nick Hornby
Novelist
Nicole Krauss
Author
Vendela Vida
Novelist
Zadie Smith
Novelist