172 Quotes by Sheila Heti

Sometimes you do have people who are great at curating; sometimes you have people curating who don’t know what they’re do...

Whether I want kids is a secret I keep from myself – it is the greatest secret I keep from myself.

You have to know where the funny is, and if you know where the funny is, you know everything.

It’s nice to go into your doom. It’s so liberating.

I spend most of my time in my head. You can always work out solutions and satisfactions there. Maybe you can’t actually bring them about, but there’s usually a pleasant pillow of time between imagining you can, and realizing you cannot.

She doesn’t want a baby – but her body doesn’t believe her. On some level, no one believes her. On some level, she doesn’t even believe herself.

When I was in high school, and even to a degree while I was in university, I wasn’t on the Internet. So it’s not as embedded in my soul, that kind of way of being.

I studied art history and philosophy and took economics and political science classes. I just took whatever I wanted and I didn’t worry about grades and I read and learned a lot, and I didn’t have much of a social life, so it was deeply absorbing.

I like the jellyfish because it has no brain or heart. It’s just a thing that takes in the ocean through its mouth. I like that kind of ambition and simplicity.