Alecander Seiler

“sex and comedy are the two subjects that are never taken seriously, though we think about sex constantly- and about comedy periodically, if we're lucky, if only in the form of self-satire.”
― Edmund White, The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir

“No matter how long you've been doing a job or how good people say you are, you need to care as if you've never done it before.”
― Jon M. Chu, Viewfinder: A Memoir of Seeing and Being Seen

“In short: Did I still believe in myself? The question was stark, but it wasn't simple. It turns out that if you want to change your life and reach a dream that seems to be receding beyond the horizon, then the question isn't something you answer only once. It's with you every morning. It's with you every night. The world is going to ask it and keep asking it. And every time it does, you have to give the same answer. And that answer has to be true- there's no lying.”
― Jon M. Chu, Viewfinder: A Memoir of Seeing and Being Seen

“She'd been unhappy for so long, her mother. Though Lana was beginning to think it wasn't unhappiness her mother suffered from so much as happiness, or at least an idea of it that didn't exist. If she admitted to being happy, what would she aspire to anymore?”
― Eric Puchner, Dream State