Jenna Wortham Quotes

Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.

We're dumber and less cognitively nimble if we're not around other people - and, now, other machines.

I feel like, whatever movie I was making, there would always be moments of human intimacy and insight into a little bit of what makes us tick as people.

If people start to buy the idea that machines are great companions for the elderly or for children, as they increasingly seem to do, we are really playing with fire.

I grew up using maps and having a sense of direction, and now I have a phone. I used to try to remember numbers, and now I... can just call them up instantly. And that's great. But what's happening right now is that we're in a phase of human evolution where we're merging with machines.

We expect more from technology and less from each other. We create technology to provide the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.

I love digital, but the only problem is less intimacy. People look at the screen right away. Before, nobody saw the picture before you saw the final picture. There was more privacy in a way.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely. All you really have that really matters are feelings. That's what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin

I sometimes think novelists write about sex in order to avoid boring themselves to death.

I do research. I do emotional sort of Method work. Somehow it’s a huge mishmash of things that becomes my own acting process and my own way of navigating through something. But ultimately the desire is to be honest, and for that truth to bleed through into your work and onto the screen.

You use sex to express every emotion except love.

It is better to be loved by one person who knows your soul than millions who don't even know your phone number.

There's nothing wrong with sending a quick note if you're busy or just want to flirt, but it's hard to have any real interaction over text. In the buffet of communication, text messaging should be a side dish, not the entree.

Love has its roots in sex, but its foliage and flowers are in the pure light of spirit.

the art of reading hardly differs from the art of writing, in that its most intense pleasures and pains must remains private, and cannot be communicated to others.

I suppose I do have one embarrassing passion- I want to know what it feels like to care about something passionately.

I want the part of you that you refuse to give.

But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving; To rest at noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy; To return home at eventide with gratitude; And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise on your lips.

I saw you happy. Happier than you've been in a long time. With someone you like that much, the lows are as low as the highs are high.

She is so naked and singular. She is the sum of yourself and your dream. Climb her like a monument, step after step. She is solid.

You lose somebody you've possibly known for years and on top of that you lose a character that you love seeing on TV so I think that kind of makes it cool that we pay a price too. That it is painful on many levels and its amazing to be writing that moment and crossing that line right on the page and seeing the ugliness of it and having to deal with it. It's a very weird thing.

He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.

Whenever you see someone react to something they're reading on their phone, that's life being lived.

It is not half so important to know as to feel.

Only death goes deeper than sex.