Ed Park > Quotes

“A few insect skeletons lay scattered on the narrow sill, shiny and precise and sad as broken jewelry.”
― Ed Park, Personal Days

“Maxine will sometimes compliment us on our hair or other aspects of our scruffy appearance. The next day, or even later the same day, she'll send an all-caps e-mail asking why a certain form is not on her desk. This will prompt a peppy reply, one barely stifling a howl of fear:

Hey Maxine!
The document you want was actually put in your in-box yesterday around lunchtime. I also e-mailed it to you and Russell. Let me know if you can't find it!
Thanks!
Laars

P.S. I'm also attaching it again as a Word doc, just in case.

There's so much wrong here: the fake-vague around lunchtime, the nonsensical Thanks, the quasi-casual postscript. The exclamation points look downright psychotic.”
― Ed Park, Personal Days

“A: Is this the copy that you read as a kid?
E: Yes. Look at the edges--that turquoise color. It's lighter along the top, from where the sun hit it. Now look at this gorgeous color here, the long edge. Beautiful. Makes me nostalgic.
A: For what?
E: I don't know. The age of turquoise page edges. Somewhere there's a grad student doing her dissertation on the inks used in twentieth-century mass-market paperbacks. ”
― Ed Park

“There’s nothing as universal as the weekend and one’s modest hopes for it.”
― ed park, Personal Days

“Morale has been low since the Firings began last year. Pru says "morale" is a word thrown around only in the context of its absence. You never look at a hot young thing and say, "Check out that spring chicken," but only use it to describe your great-aunt: "She's no spring chicken.”
― Ed Park, Personal Days

“His favorite book was A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates,”
― Ed Park, Same Bed Different Dreams

“A New York plate that said you die. (Dark City Lights)”
― Ed Park

“With the tuition my parents paid, he later recalls, I only learned words they don’t understand.”
― Ed Park, Same Bed Different Dreams