25 Quotes by Dominic Smith

You say love's so important, but how can you prove it?Love is like soap, it works if you use it.

We're conduits for the universe's desire to think about itself.

Old age is having the name of a chiropractor in your wallet. It's cutting out coupons for the zeal of discounted small items and the practice of fine motor skills.

There are pockets of time, she thinks, where every sense rings like a bell, where the world brims with fleeting grace.

[Louis] knew on some level that fame is not the story we tell; it is the story the world tells us. And the world was telling Louis it wanted to see itself reflected in gouache and charcoal of painted calico; that the human eye longed to trust the illusion of likeness. Render perfectly a meadow at dusk, a horizon at dawn, and people will love you for it. For giving them something they didn't know they already had.

The forger was too exacting, too superficial. Only the real artist has the false beginning.

Love is not like choosing a partner for whist. It has a life of its own. our duty is merely to follow its call.

Nothing in the world is more sinister than a child’s coffin.

Darkness at high altitude, the midflight quietude, always makes him think of the bottom of the ocean. There’s a submarine quality to the experience, a sense of dredging the bottom instead of scraping up against the stratosphere.