716 Quotes by A.D. Aliwat

Just trust the gut and speak from it.

People like to talk a lot of shit about the MTA, but it’s really an amazing system, when you think about it. The trains run twenty-four hours. It serves something like four million people daily. Over a billion rides a year. And it does a pretty good job staying on schedule. Yeah, it could be a little cleaner, but it’s not so bad.

An assistant is not a creative partner; an assistant is not tasked with keeping one on his toes—an assistant is an assistant.

Rich people tend to have shit taste in sweets, and French macarons aren’t half as tasty as the coconut type, the other one with the extra ‘o.

Stealing is bad. The act itself, that is. To take from someone else. No está bien. But God likes it when you steal for a good reason. He must. If Robin Hood was real, then he’s definitely in heaven.

There’s a certain authority to that number. Ten.

Nine? There is no authority to that number! It must be ten!

While yes, it’s good to have a fair amount of haters, it’s not good to have them on the street, where their anonymity can let them slip away without serious repercussions if they slight you, and this made me realize that fame, on its own, without fear, actually totally fucking sucks.

Fame had kept me from getting laid that night. Fame would make it so other people would bother me, follow me around with cameras, be all up in my shit, keep me from doing what I wanted to do when I wanted to do it. Fame could even potentially kill me. It killed a lot of people: John Lennon, Princess Diana, Selena.