Quotes from Simon Van Booy

I don't see the point of truth anymore, it causes just as much heartbreak as lying.

Shoes are a neutral blessing for us because feet generally aren't regarded as a place where the battle for self-esteem is won or lost. Feet don't change size when the body does through the natural ageing process.

I think anyone can fall in love, if you're open and you're willing, but the real test is sustaining it after all the excitement has worn off.

You can't put a price on the rituals of love, because you never know what will happen next. I suppose fear is part of the excitement and we can't have one without the other.

I think living with the absence of someone we love is like living in front of a mountain from which a person - a speck in the distance, on some distance ridge - is perpetually waving.

But say you do find the right people - how do you love them without smothering them?...How do you not suffocate them with all the love you've built up in their absence?

I think John Coltrane is one of the great American heroes, like Abraham Lincoln and Emily Dickinson.

Language is like looking at a map of somewhere. Love is living there and surviving on the land.

It's tempting to imagine how we could hurt someone close, because it reminds us how fiercely we love them.

Writers are often alone when they work. Hours pass in silence as one long moment; light fades as day turns back to face the coming night.

Music is only a mystery to people who want it explained. Music and love are the same.

I was living in a large apartment with no furniture, just a typewriter, and because I had nothing else to do with my time, it made me take my writing seriously.

As a single parent, I had become tyrannical in order to survive, and anything I couldn't control caused me enormous anxiety. As a naturally untidy, disorganised man who never made lists or kept receipts, morphing into someone who could take care of a toddler on his own may have caused me to overcompensate a little.

Libraries are the ultimate restaurants for brain food. I sleep better knowing there are libraries. I would take a bullet for a librarian.

Children are the closest we have to wisdom and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.

Like surgeons trying to save a life, the conservators and preservers at New York City museums dedicate themselves to ensuring the longevity of works of art for public view.

If you travel too often, you actually come face-to-face with what you're trying to escape. I feel like when I travel alone, sometimes it's like being locked in a hotel room with my own worst enemy.

The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us we're not the first to die.

For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.

When small drops began to fall and darken the world in penny-shaped circles, no one around him scurried for cover. For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.

Everything that we love will, at some point, be taken away from us. If I think about everyone I love eventually being taken away from me by death, or simply by getting lost from each other in the world, it makes me value them much more now.

Succes is really nothing more than the record of failure. To be successful means you must be willing to fail more than anyone else.