278 Quotes by Matthew Quick

Silence has always been my default mode – my best defense against the rest of the world.

Did that ever happen to you? You think someone is really important and different, but then you get to know them and it ruins everything? Do you know what I’m talking about?

Stop a stranger and ask her to explain her greatest fears and her secret hopes and aspirations in detail and then tell her you care because she is a human being.

Do you know what happens when you do nothing? Nothing.

Remember – it’s a long race and you can always outwork talent in the end.

Don’t you ever feel like you want to quit doing something everyone else makes you feel like you’re supposed to keep doing? Didn’t you ever just simply want to... stop?

I like to pretend I’m a prisoner kept in a dark, dank cell who’s only allowed fifteen minutes a day in the yard, so that I can remember to really enjoy looking up.

But do we really think about it deeply or do we just ultimately do what we’re supposed to do? What our parents want us to do? What society wants us to do?

I think it’s strange to live in a house with someone you cannot talk to-especially when that someone is your father-and the thought makes me a little sad.