Simon Van Booy Quotations

The most frustrating part of trying to direct everything is not that it alienates you from people who genuinely want to help, but that it's actually impossible.

When I'm doing something, I do work hard at it.

Both my parents were very supportive of me in whatever I wanted to do.

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.

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.

When you give something up, you need to fill the space where it used to be, and you understand the landscape in yourself a bit more.

There are times in life when language fails us, when everything that needs to be said can be expressed only by saying nothing at all.

I was always a writer, by which I mean I was always scribbling away, doing something with pen and paper.

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.

In world mythology, there are countless examples of tragic characters whose greatest strength is also the source of their undoing. But the ancient Greeks and Romans also held the view that acceptance is the beginning of wisdom.