"My childhood in the Soviet Union was not terrible, it was very joyful."

“Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.”

“Stop labeling people just because they're not like you.”

“In Paris, everything's for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.”

“We are stronger than we've credited ourselves to be. We have been the victims and the witnesses. We have said a lifetime of good-byes.”

Source : Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.338, Simon and Schuster

“The best thing workers can bring to their jobs is a lifelong thirst for learning.”

“Health is so important now, it's ridiculous - the body has become frightening, this thing that will kill you if you don't keep really healthy. The body is the enemy now.”

Source : "Jenny Hval's Soft Dick Rock". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. June 15, 2015.

“The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not there physically at all. It is an illusion, a piece of magic, so that what you see is not what you see.”

Source : Philip Guston, Clark Coolidge (2011). “Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations”, p.278, Univ of California Press

“Sadness does not last forever when we walk in the direction of that which we always desired.”