Ed Simons Quotes

You do what you do. Or you do what you have to do. I don't know how to explain it better. I think that in the moment, you can't see connections, but sometimes afterwards you do.

I would prefer to use the word free. I think the Dior thing is so much freer. There was not so much free about Jil's way of working.

This is days and days and months and years and all the minutes in between, just you me.

Some words were like that. Whole lives attached to them. Ghosts and lives and ecstasy and sorrow.

Love is when he is hungry and you feed him. Love is knowing when he is hungry.

Alexander knew that before he had light instead of darkness, he had to deserve light instead of darkness.

I'll take your breath any way you give it to me, Shura.

It was a challenge for me to see how I could deal with that at Jil, and I had a lot of doubt about it. I wondered if maybe it was just better to do your own thing in the long run, like an artist.

Robert Gober, for example. He doesn't seem like somebody who is just going to show in a gallery that asks him to show. He's just making his work, and when he's ready, he's going to show it.

The modern listening experience is one of solitude, where someone just listens to music on their laptop.

Economics is primarily useful, both to the student and to the political leader, as a prophylactic against popular fallacies.

When Tatiana looked up from her ice cream, she saw a soldier staring at her from across the street.

The days of idealism had gone. Only life was left.

"Alexander, were you looking for me?" "All my life."

Thank you," she whispered, "for keeping yourself alive, soldier." "You're welcome," he whispered back.

L.A. interests me, the whole band scene and relaxed carefree feel, but it does not mean you have to dress like a hippy.

War was the ultimate chaos, a pounding, soul-destroying snarl, ending in blown-apart men lying unburied on the cold earth. There was nothing more cosmically chaotic than war.

When you're onstage, you can see the front row and get a general impression of what's going on, but you're in your own zone.

Don't think, just feel.

Americans are good at making dance music.

I know that sometimes the things we carry become too much for us. We are burned down, but somehow we have to pick ourselves up and keep going

Lazarevo drips you into my soul, dawn drop by moonlight drop from the river Kama. When you look for me, look for me there, because that's where I'll be all the days of my life.

....and when Tatiana lifted her glistening eyes to him, Alexander was looking down at her with his I’ll-get-on-the-bus-for-you-anytime face.

Tatiana realized she was too young to hide well what was in her heart but old enough to know that her heart was in her eyes.

And then, because she was Tatiana and because she couldn’t help herself, and because he wouldn’t have it any other way, she ran to him and was in his arms.

Whenever you're unsure of yourself, whenever you're in doubt, ask yourself three questions. What do you believe in? What do you hope for? but most important, ask yourself, what do you love?

I was blinded by stupidity for a brief moment in our life, for a flicker in the eternity in which you and I live, and I stumbled.

With my writing, because I live it, I have to be consumed by it, and that means you have to forget your other life, which is constantly pulling you from your work.

Tatiana: "Why did we spend two days fighting when we could have been doing this?" Alexander: "That wasn't fighting, Tatiana. That was foreplay.

Open your eyes, soldier,” Tatiana said fondly, caressing his face.“Are you hungry?” “I was hungry,” Alexander said. “But you fed me.” His body was shaking underneath his sheet.

We thought the hard part was over—but we were wrong. Living is the hardest part. Figuring out how to live your life when you’re all busted up inside and out—there is nothing harder.

I wish I could spend six years writing one novel.

Tatiana and the soldier were having a silence

Alexander to Tatiana: I love you as much as it is possible for a man to love a woman.

Falling in love with you in the Summer Garden in the white nights in Leningrad is the moment that propels me through life.

I tend to be a great optimist when it comes to the United States and the American way of life, I think precisely because I wasn't born into it.

You have to keep your audience in your mind; if you're writing stuff that you know nobody's going to care about then you should rethink what you're doing!

Daughters are supposed to be friends to their mothers in their old age.

I don't want this life to end," said Alexander. "The good, the bad, the everything, the very old, to ever end.

Love is, to be loved,” said Alexander, “in return.

Live as if you have faith,” she said, “and faith shall be given to you.

When I was growing up, 'Anna Karenina' was one of my favourite books.

Everything comes at a price. Everthing in your life. The question you have to ask yourself is, what price are you willing to pay?

Alexander smoked and watched her from his tree stump bench. What are you doing? she would ask him. Nothing, he would reply. Nothing but growing my pain into madness.

They had no past. They had no future. They just were.

Tatia: I think its too big to fit

Courage, Alexander..... Courage, Tatiana

And that's my point: all great things worth having require great sacrifice worth giving.

Awash in a flood of hostility and despair, they battled and railed and shattered their bodies on one another, unable to find one strand, one sobering swallow of solace.

If I can live through this, he thought, I can live through anything. If I can live through this, I WILL live through anything.