Max Urai > Max's Quotes

“An ad for cigars appears in 100,000 newspapers; sales of that brand increase by 3% for a short time thereafter. A new play receives a viciously negative review in a theatrical journal that prints 500 copies; the playwright shoots himself. Who’s the better writer?”
― Jason Lutes

“It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one’s solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem.”
― Maggie Nelson, Bluets

“Questions arose. Like, what in the fuck was going on here, basically.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice

“Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a point when choice was any more than sum of all the choices gone before?”
― Joan Didion, Run River