Mcsweeney's Quotes

#1. Most people are trying to go digital, and trying to do different things with poetry. McSweeney's is going in the opposite direction - going more classic, and retro, which is all coming back.

Victoria Chang

#2. McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object.

Dave Eggers

#3. We lived by the water, and I was a pretty normal kid until my teenage years; then I dyed my hair pink and spiraled out of control.

Tove Lo

#4. The Revelations of Devout and Learn'd Who rose before us, and as Prophets burn'd, Are all but Stories, which, awoke from Sleep They told their comrades, and to Sleep return'd.

Omar Khayyam

#5. The great challenge for the garden designer is not to make the garden look natural, but to make the garden so that the people in it will feel natural.

Lawrence Halprin

#6. If I can generate enough income, I'd like to get a castle, a historic castle that I can restore.

Henry Thomas

#7. My notion of art is very maximalist and souped-up: I love spectacle, overload, magic materials, magic words, incantation and litany, incarnation and possession, spilling and wounds. Art as a sacred event.

Joyelle McSweeney

#8. As much as you can in your life, say yes.

Mary Carillo

#9. The Internet is such a paradoxical space - it's limitless and totally bounded, apparently free yet corporate-controlled, apparently invisible yet surveilled, a place of disembodiment where bodies are policed and enviolenced, a place that is apparently 'nowhere'.

Joyelle McSweeney

#10. As a little kid growing up in Hollywood, I was called 'a little crazy'. And now I guess I'm still that way.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#11. If you can't advertise yourself, what hope do you have of advertising anything else?

David Ogilvy

#12. You can't drive to the coastline. You can only drive so close to the white chalky cliff and then you have to get out and dive.

Joyelle McSweeney

#13. The Internet is a graveyard, a bright malfunctioning littoral, and it is entirely necropastoral. But the necropastoral can't be sustained - it's non-sustainable.

Joyelle McSweeney

#14. The man who attracts attention is the man who is thinking all the time, and expressing himself in little ways. It is not the man who tries to dazzle his employer by doing the theatrical, the spectacular.

Charles M. Schwab