"Overthinking is often a product of underdoing."

“The difference between a winner and a loser - they both failed, but the winner gets back up and does it again and again until it goes his way.”

“you never make the same mistake twice. the second time you make it, it is no longer a mistake. it is a choice”

“Doesn't anything socialistic make you want to throw up? Like great public schools, or health insurance for all?”

“Abstinence, being faithful and correct and consistent condom use are the only ways to successfully reach everyone when discussing HIV prevention. I believe that the abstinence message alone does not solve the AIDS epidemic.”

“I've never been able to read for anything, and every time I have, I've never gotten the part. And I don't know why that is. I just can't. Reading or auditioning for something... It's like it's this mental block in my brain, and I just can't do it. But when people ask you to do stuff without making you go through that, it's a much more pleasant experience.”

Source : "Yo La Tengo Is Here for the Long Haul". Interview with Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. November 14, 2015.

“With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.”

“You don't paint pictures to put them in your attic. You want people to look at them.”

“I fall into books the way I fall into lust - wholly, hungrily.”