Mark Z. Danielewski Quotes

To be okay with not knowing is a sign of a mature person and a mature society.

The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.

I learned 30 years ago that it is foolish to scold. I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting over the fact that God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence.

By not knowing, not hoping to know and not acting like we know what's happening, we begin to access our inner strength.

May God grant me love for that which has splendor; but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things.

The more you look into and understand yourself, the less judgmental you become towards others.

Life flies by, and it's easy to get lost in the blur. In adolescence, it's 'How do I fit in?' In your 20s, it's 'What do I want to do?' In your 30s, 'Is this what I'm meant to do?' I think the trick is living the questions. Not worrying so much about what's ahead but rather sitting in the grey area - being OK with where you are.

I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.

I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.

Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools.

It's a beautiful thing at 60 to know who you are.

I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange.

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

At this point in my life I'm not bent on proving anything, really.

It took me several years to figure out who I am and a few more to accept what I discovered. Now, I'm in the enjoyment stage of that process and it's a happy place.

What teens will realize is always a mystery to me. I'm still realizing so many things myself, very belatedly, that it seems unwise to think I have any right to be showing people things in hopes that they'll realize them.

I had to let my ego go a long time ago.

I don't really care about being accepted now. I wish I had been like that earlier.

Expecting to be wrong about most things most of the time brings, finally, the kind of humility that leads to peace. I think.

For me, it really is about the self-acceptance... the more time that I spend really accepting and allowing myself to be exactly where I am, the faster it is I move towards what I wanna be doing.

I think life is about growing into yourself and getting to like that person.

When I was younger, I believed my inconsistency was due to my youth. I believed that age would teach me all I needed to know and that when I was older, I would have learned the lessons of life and discovered the secrets of true spirituality. I am older - a lot older - and the secrets are still secret from me.

When you can take away the ego, you learn a lot about yourself and the world around you.

It took a long time, and a lot of years, for me to get comfortable with myself, like the way I am now.

I'm getting older and I'm just coming to terms that I'm stuck with me so I better try to like myself.