278 Quotes by Matthew Quick

The only way to beat my crazy was by doing something even crazier. Thank you. I love you. I knew it from the moment I saw you. I’m sorry it took me so long to catch up.

I marvel at her – a woman with stocks and business suits and her own house.

I’m going to kill you later today,” I say to that guy in the mirror, and he just smiles back at me like he can’t wait.

You need to make time for your family no matter what happens in your life.

After I returned to New Jersey, I thought I was safe, because I did not think Kenny G could leave the bad place, which I realize is silly now – because Kenny G is extremely talented and resourceful and a powerful force to be reckoned with.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Can’t it just exist without an explanation? Why do we have to assign meaning to art? Do we need to understand everything? Maybe it exists to evoke feelings and emotions – period. Not to mean something.

There are no such things as fictional characters.

It felt like so many years’ worth of anxiety and worry were trying to escape all at once – maybe like an emotional volcano, only my mom and dad, they didn’t run away to save themselves but sprinted right into my lava. They both jumped up off the couch and wrapped their arms around me even though it meant touching each other. We stayed like that for a long time, and it felt good – almost enough to justify everything that had precipitated it, but not quite.