55 Quotes by Jessica Zafra

We don’t really have a movie industry; we have a trailer industry. The movie guys make five minutes worth of stuff to get people in the theatre, and eighty-five minutes of filler.

What we call the wisdom that comes with age is usually simple caution.

Food is the all-purpose comforter, the giver of warmth, the source of the artificial yet deeply appreciated sugar high.

Few things in life are certain, and one of them is that you can turn on the television at three in the morning and someone will be singing and dancing on the Indian channel. Proof of Nietzsche’s theory of eternal recurrence.

Being good does make a difference. You will not receive praise or payment for it, and other people will mistake your goodness for weakness, but it resonates among people you won’t even meet.

To work problems out for yourself, to find you own way out of ignorance, to know the pleasure of knowing – these things improve the quality of life. Unfashionable, even impractical, but true.

Sometimes I wonder if, instead of falling madly in love, we should aspire to fall sanely in love. But then, what would be the point?

One of the advantages of having an imaginary boyfriend is that he exists only for you, therefore he can not be stolen. The disadvantage is that you can not introduce him to your friends.

There’s nothing wrong with self-improvement, as long as you recognize that at some point you’re going to have to accept yourself in all your imperfect glory. What’s wrong with liking yourself the way you are?