jebgavin’s most recent Quotables

If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact, not to be solved, but to be coped with over time

For what it’s worth: it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.

Every act of communication is an act of translation.

Order is never observed; it is disorder that attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive.

A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.

Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.

Every work of art is one half of a secret handshake.

Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't.

Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.

The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.

Reblogging is the purest form of blogging.

The devil follows me day and night, because he is afraid to be alone.

The writing’s easy, it’s the living that is sometimes difficult.

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don’t know.

When you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. Your tastes only narrow and exclude people. So create.

We exist because of suburbia. Suburbia is a freak’s dreamworld, a world of extra rooms upstairs and long, lazy afternoons with no interference. A place where you can listen to your LPs for hours on end. You can live in your room, your own rent-free corner of the universe, and create a world of pleasure and interest entirely centered on yourself and your interior aesthetic and logic.

When I was young, I believed in three things: Marxism, the redemptive power of cinema, and dynamite. Now I just believe in dynamite.

I learned that money can be a lot of things. It can be something that is hoarded, fought over, protected, stolen and withheld. Or it can be like an energy, fueled by the desire, will, creative interest, need to laugh, of large groups of people. And it can be shuffled and pushed around and pooled together to fuel a common interest, jokes about garbage, penises and parenthood.

All his life he would hold this moment as exemplary of what love was. It was not wanting anything more, nor was it expecting people to exceed what they had just accomplished. It was simply feeling so complete.