You can't be a free spirit in a place that feels like it was built on lockdown.

- Ottessa Moshfegh

I hope that I'm the kind of person who would step in between somebody holding a gun at somebody else. I would like to be that stupid. I'd like to be …

- Ottessa Moshfegh

I live in East Hollywood which is sort of the end of the grit, butting up against Silverlake and Los Feliz which are the refined gentrified hipster z…

- Ottessa Moshfegh

I love art because I feel that it's evidence of the great shared universal power. I like art that feels real, that cuts the bullshit.

- Ottessa Moshfegh

What's inspiring me the most [is] injustice. My own growth as a member of the human race, in terms of the veils being lifted, seeing more of the beau…

- Ottessa Moshfegh

The thing about California is that it's kind of a dream, and I started to feel like I was living in a dream. I still feel like that. Because of that …

- Ottessa Moshfegh

Indifference is the saddest state of being. It's like PTSD - you're not gonna fight, you're not gonna run, you're just frozen there, feeling nothing.…

- Ottessa Moshfegh

Reality is a projection of consciousness, so if you believe - more than just think - but believe, subliminally, that something is true, it will becom…

- Ottessa Moshfegh

You know that's why people don't like unlikeable characters. It's not that they're not interesting. Everybody knows the most interesting character in…

- Ottessa Moshfegh