Sean Michaels > Quotes

“What is one to do with old letters? Old gold, he thought. It is difficult to throw away anything that once seemed precious.”
― Sean Michaels, The Wagers

“Naps have always seemed like a luxury I can’t afford.” Rhoda put her hands back on the wheel. “I get it,” she said. “I used to think that way. Get your lazy butt back to work. More hours, more clients. I couldn’t stop. My daughter’s like that too. But that’s capitalism, Marian. I try to tell her: ‘That’s the powers that be.’ They want to squeeze every minute of labor out of you. They want you to think your only value is your work. That anything else is laziness. But it isn’t laziness: it’s resistance.”
― Sean Michaels, Do You Remember Being Born?

“The Nap Ministry was founded by Tricia Hersey in 2016 and I highly recommend her 2022 book, Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto.”
― Sean Michaels, Do You Remember Being Born?

“I felt then what I have felt many times since. It is the moment you forget the electricity, the conducting metals and skipping electrons, the tubes and wires and fundamental principles; standing with hands in pockets you forget these things and for a hot, proud instant you think it is you who did this, who made the tubes glow, you clever mouse.”
― Sean Michaels, Us Conductors