Your life is what happens when you're busy trying to become unbusy.

Nowists get off on getting on, so they run when they could walk, jump when they could sit and dance when they could sit at the edge. They regret inaction, so simply act.

If you don't start, you're finished.

Only the right pain gets the right gain.

If life is fast, live faster.

You get told to look before you leap. But if you are too careful you may end up just looking.

Embrace the perpetual joy of moving perpetually forward.

All we've got is Now. Life, composed of a billion moments, from our first to our last thoughts.

Gods were preserved but languages were exterminated: thus was the conqueror’s will

May as well leave the door open.

The selective memory isn't selective enough.

The average American expends more time becoming informed about choosing a car than choosing a candidate. But, then, the consequences of the former choice are immediate and discernible.

People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations

The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

I was raised to be a very strong and independent woman without anybody ever saying the word feminist or having any political conversation.

There's only so many small shows you can do. A lot of the smaller things are more side project things. Not everything is appropriate for Sonic Youth to do.

The history of science alone can keep the physicist from the mad ambitions of dogmatism as well as the despair of pyrrhonian scepticism.

I think the Matrix effect is over-used and I don't do it anymore.