George Lucas:

Look around you. Ideas are everywhere.

Akim Reinhardt:

We build ideas like large, intricate Rube Goldberg contraptions. We're desperate to know that we caught the mouse because we built a proper trap. We're distraught by the prospect that we are the mice and the mice are us and every living thing dies, whether in a trap or in an open field or in the talons of bird or in the wreckage of a car or in a hospital. Nothing matters.

Olivia Laing:

Faced with the knowledge that nothing we say, no matter how trivial or silly, will ever be completely erased, we find it hard to take the risks that togetherness entails.

Everyone is promoting, no one is listening.

Geoff Manaugh:

Los Angeles is where you confront the objective fact that you mean nothing; the desert, the ocean, the tectonic plates, the clear skies, the sun itself, the Hollywood Walk of Fame -- even the parking lots: everything there somehow precedes you, even new construction sites, and it's bigger than you and more abstract than you and indifferent to you. You don't matter. You're free.

SLOMO:

I said, "How does a strapping young man like me get to be an old codger like you?" And he looked at me and said, "Do what you want to!" And at first I was thinking, this old man just made more sense to me than anything I'd ever heard in my life. It's just, do what you want to.

Steve Jobs:

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

John Givings:

Plenty of people are onto the emptiness, but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness.

Melinda Gates:

Let your heart break. It will change what you do with your optimism.

Hillary Clinton:

Everyday Americans need a champion. And I want to be that champion.

Michiru Hoshino:

Oh! I feel it. I feel the cosmos!