“It’s a kind of reincarnation without death: all these different lives we get to live in this one body, as ourselves.”

You Could Make This Place Beautiful

Maggie Smith

“When I try to imagine the addresses of the houses and apartments I lived in before my grandparents kidnapped me, I can’t remember anything.”

Pulling the Chariot of the Sun

Shane McCrae

“How rich and diverse, how complex and non-linear the history of all women is.”

A History of Women in 101 Objects

Annabelle Hirsch

“All that matters is that you are making something you love, to the best of your ability, here and now.”

The Creative Act

Rick Rubin