Marisa Crane

The listlessness of it all, the profit off depression, the extinction of an entire species, the chlorinated connections- poisoned just to appear clean.

What I mean is you make the world less ugly just by living in it.

Loving him is like trying to hold onto an armful of balloons. Maybe I need someone to come along and pop them.

I have imprinted on you and all those miles between us only keep us apart because we let them.

I lie and tell you I had a dream about you last night, so it makes it more socially acceptable to reach out to someone I haven’t spoken to in years.

It occurred to me that love, simply stated, is replacing the need to always be right with the need to be understanding.

Nothing endures but change.

There is an interconnectedness among members that bonds the family, much like mountain climbers who rope themselves together when climbing a mountain, so that if someone should slip or need support, he’s held up by the others until he regains his footing.

We teach people how to treat us.

I don’t let go of concepts – I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.

Enduring habits I hate…. Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.

An artist is always alone if he is an artist. What the artist needs is loneliness.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

People create their own experiences.

It is difference of opinion that makes horse races.

I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules.

Most of the sickness in the world is caused by eating too much.

Many people seem to believe that Greenfield Village and the Edison Institute and Museum at Dearborn, with their specimens of earlier type of American life and industry, are just a kind of antiquarian hobby of mine. I do not deny that they have given me a great deal of interest and pleasure. But the project is vastly more than a hobby. It has very definite purposes, and I hope will have results lasting down the years. One purpose is to remind the public who visit it and sometimes there are thousands a day–of how farand how fast we have come in technical progress in the last century or so. If we have come so far and so fast, is it likely that we shall stop now?

You need to listen to your body because your body is listening to you.

Never turn your back on enthusiasm.