It's amazing how life conspires to set you up with what you need.

- Rachel Kushner

To be alive is to listen quietly while other people talk. That's how you learn something.

- Rachel Kushner

I was doing that thing the infatuated do, stitching destiny onto the person we want stitched to us.

- Rachel Kushner

I love to be alone, I find it necessary, but I don't know if that's just how I am or if it's an essential ingredient to making, to art. Certainly on …

- Rachel Kushner

I think art is much more about an engagement with the world, a way of being called upon and recognizing that the world is speaking to you. Which isn'…

- Rachel Kushner

I don't really see art as structured by logic.

- Rachel Kushner

And here I arrive at my point. The point is that everyone has a different dream. The point is that it is a grave mistake to assume your dream is in a…

- Rachel Kushner

A funny thing about women and machines: the combination made men curious.

- Rachel Kushner

People who want their love easy don't really want love.

- Rachel Kushner