Withholding distorts reality...

"Withholding distorts reality. It makes the people who do the withholding ugly and small-hearted. It makes the people from whom things are withheld crazy and desperate and incapable of knowing what they actually feel. / So release yourself from that. Don’t be strategic or coy. Strategic and coy are for jackasses. Be brave. Be authentic. Practice saying the word love to the people you love so when it matters the most to say it, you will." -Sugar; Dear Sugar

...make that self over and over...

"In life, we have to make ourselves. In art, we have to make that self over and over again and present it to the world. We have to put it up on the wall or down on the page or project it on a screen or allow it to resound or glide or crackle across the room. And each time we do that, we must endure the sense that perhaps all has failed, that no one wants this, that we are too much that. Too ordinary or female or obsessed with turtles or experimental or rural or Jewish or derivative or slutty or neurotic or sentimental or gay or Jesus-worshipping or Asian or emotionally restrained or outside-the-whole-MFA-thing or linguistically dense or offensively lewd or just incredibly stupid and weird and boring. / Each time!" -Sugar; Dear Sugar

Our doubts are traitors...

"Our doubts are traitors / And make us lose the good we oft might gain / By fearing attempt." -Shakespeare

A theory is something nobody believes...

"A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it." -attributed to Albert Einstein

Only two things are infinite...

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." -Albert Einstein