To go on and on about your soul is to miss the whole point of life. I could say that with more certainty if I knew the whole point of life.

- Sheila Heti

I hadn't realized until this week that in [Moses'] youth he killed a man, an Egyptian, and buried him under some sandI used to worry that I wasn't en…

- Sheila Heti

I spend most of my time in my head. You can always work out solutions and satisfactions there. Maybe you can't actually bring them about, but there's…

- Sheila Heti

Literature and art are one of a number of relationships I have with the world. Like you have relationships with your friends and a relationship with …

- Sheila Heti

It has long been known to me that certain objects want you as much as you want them. These are the ones that become important, the objects that you h…

- Sheila Heti

You have to know where the funny is, and if you know where the funny is, you know everything.

- Sheila Heti

I'm in a serious monogamous relationship, and I don't want to keep having different boyfriends, and I have this instead - with men and women. It's be…

- Sheila Heti

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

- Sheila Heti

We don't know the effects we have on each other, but we have them.

- Sheila Heti