"What’s the business case for ending life on earth?"

“The truly unsettling thing about being a woman was needing a man to realise one's full potential”

“If people like electronic music, then great - let that be the next thing. I don't think I ever really will, but there's plenty of records for me to go buy.”

Source : "Real Time With Built to Spill’s Doug Martsch". Interview with Azeen Ghorayshi, www.motherjones.com. February 27, 2012.

“There are no uncontaminated angels”

“I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.”

“Strength is Happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, you might win or you might lose. But regardless of the short-term outcome, the very fact of your continuing to struggle is proof of your victory as a human being.”

“I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.”

Source : Annie Barrows, Mary Ann Shaffer (2011). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.8, Dial Press

“When the wayfarer whistles in the dark, he may be disavowing his timidity, but he does not see any the more clearly for doing so.”

“In giving advice I advise you, be short.”