David > David's Quotes

“It is not enough for the Jew to rest content with his own spiritual ascent, the elevation of his soul in closeness to G-d, he must strive to draw spirituality down into the world and into every part of it – the world of his work and his social life – until not only do they not distract him from his pursuit of G-d, but they become a full part of it.”
― (R. Menachem M. Schneerson)

“What do you think it means?" she says in a low, conspiratorial voice.
"What do YOU think it means?" I say. It's an old psychologist move, that one.”
― David Ebenbach, How to Mars

“There is meaning in absence just as there is meaning in presence. In fact, there may be more meaning in absence. The only difference is that you have to figure out what it is.”
― David Ebenbach, How to Mars

“We have been told that this is what it means to be alive.”
― David Ebenbach, How to Mars

“Holding hands in spacesuits is not very much like holding actual hands, but it's something.”
― David Ebenbach, How to Mars

“What you have here is a women who's travelled more than a hundred millions miles in order to become, I guess, a biologist with no bio to ology”
― David Ebenbach, How to Mars

“I am going to create what happened to me. Only because living isn't tellable. Living isn't livable. I shall have to create upon life. And without lying. Yes to creation, no to lying. Creation isn't imagination, it's running the huge risk of coming face to face with reality.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

“Sometimes there are things we don’t know, and sometimes there are things that we don’t know that we do know, or that we know but we don’t know that you want to know them.”
― David Ebenbach

“You could think about something without doing something.”
― David Ebenbach