Miranda July

He was worried she would not let him love her with the stain. He had already decided long ago, twenty or thirty…

— Miranda July

“If I could quietly kill her without anyone knowing, I would.”

— Miranda July

“Once Carl had called me ginjo, which I thought meant “sister” until he told me it’s Japanese for a man, usually an…

— Miranda July

“People are always breaking through, like in the Doors song 'Break on Through (To the Other Side)'. But I really had. I…

— Miranda July

Writing a novel was like I had some Play-Doh to work with and could just keep working with it - doing a…

— Miranda July

I am very sincere. Some people are always kidding, so when you're not, it's going to seem annoying to them.

— Miranda July

“He called the feeling between us “weird,” and I had nothing to add. I kissed the backs of his legs and they…

— Miranda July

“Sadness is pathetically limited to the range of thirst, it is just a sip of emotion, tightly buckled to a frown, quenchable.”

— Miranda July

We come from long lines of people destined never to meet.

— Miranda July

He breathed out the bitter air that makes women doubt everything, and I breathed it in, as I had always done. I…

— Miranda July

If you want to have a character who falls into crisis, all you have to do is turn the Internet off, and…

— Miranda July

I don't think I'm more of a screenwriter than I am a fiction writer. I'm more of a reader than a film-watcher,…

— Miranda July

I didn't have any vices before the Internet. There are a lot of cracks in the day, moments where you don't know…

— Miranda July

That's the artist's job, really: continually setting yourself free, and giving yourself new options and new ways of thinking about things.

— Miranda July

In my paranoid world every storekeeper thinks I’m stealing, every man thinks I’m a prostitute or a lesbian, every woman thinks I’m…

— Miranda July

“Someone is getting excited. Somebody somewhere is shaking with excitement because something tremendous is about to happen to this person. This person…

— Miranda July

I made orange juice from concentrate and showed her the trick of squeezing the juice of one real orange into it. It…

— Miranda July

I could not make a move without making love.

— Miranda July

I'm interested in what the virtues of all those things are, especially for the kind of person who's made their own world…

— Miranda July

Nothing really mattered, and nothing could be lost.

— Miranda July

“I felt like I could do this forever, because nothing mattered more than anything else.”

— Miranda July

It was a real whale, a photograph of a real whale. I looked into its tiny wise eye and wondered where that…

— Miranda July

To get anything done, you used to have to brush past, or at least lay eyes on, someone whose reality was totally…

— Miranda July