William Deresiewicz:

Am I doing the right thing with my life? Do I believe the things I was taught as a child? What do the words I live by -- words like duty, honor, and country -- really mean? Am I happy?

Caterina Fake:

Much more important than working hard is knowing how to find the right thing to work on.

Choire Sicha:

If there's one thing I wish I'd learned at 18, it's that it's okay if a crazy person hates you.

Sofia Coppola:

It reminds me of something Anjelica Huston told me in my 20s: "Not everyone is going to like you." It saved me years of disappointment.

Leslie Jamison:

The idea of being "greedy" for what's inside of us suggests that we don't already possess ourselves; our own interior landscapes are territories we must map, must claim and reclaim, not terrain we already know or own.

Lewis Carroll:

It will give you clearness of thought -- the ability to see your way through a puzzle -- the habit of arranging your ideas in an orderly and get-at-able form -- and, more valuable than all, the power to detect fallacies, and to tear to pieces the flimsy illogical arguments, which you will so continually encounter in books, in newspapers, in speeches, and even in sermons, and which so easily delude those who have never taken the trouble to master this fascinating Art. Try it. That is all I ask of you!

Marina Abramovic, on Hans Ulrich Obrist:

You're always looking for the new ways of curating, something which has never been done before. And you're able to get into what you call the Places-in-Between. We all find these places when we leave our comfort zones -- our houses, our cities, the friends we know -- and are on our way somewhere. They can be the airport, bus stations; can be fast trains in Japan. And from that Place-in-Between, we go to that other place, the one we know, where we create again our habits and our own set of rules. But in the Places-in-Between, when we're completely open to destiny, anything can happen, anything is possible. Our perception is so sharp and so clear; we see more things in that moment when we are vulnerable and not in our place. If somebody asks you to describe the door of your own house, maybe you don't know how. But in those transitory spaces, the senses work in a different way. This is actually where one functions the most.

Danny Bradbury:

When you walk into your room for the hundredth time, you're not really looking at your wallpaper. Instead, your brain is painting a picture of it for you from memory.

Sterling Hayden:

Which shall it be: bankruptcy of purse or bankruptcy of life?