Vanessa Veselka

“Britta wanted to try to turn a guard. Tamara thought it was idiotic. “What are you going to do? Buy him beer…

— Vanessa Veselka

Go ahead and do what you're doing.

— Vanessa Veselka

The world is a violent child none of us will get to see grow up.

— Vanessa Veselka

I would love to love something, especially if I could do it without feeling like I was watching it die right in…

— Vanessa Veselka

There doesn't seem to be a lot of stance from the outside of that world to disagree.

— Vanessa Veselka

“Siddhartha wants liberation, Dante wants Beatrice, Frodo wants to get to Mount Doom—we all want something. Quest is elemental to the human…

— Vanessa Veselka

I was always face to face with total futility and powerlessness.

— Vanessa Veselka

As a songwriter and musician, it strikes me that in music, a certain territorial nature when it comes to one's own autonomy…

— Vanessa Veselka

The equation Bubble Tea = Something to Look Forward To depressurizes the misery of capitalism and is a Hello Kitty band-aid on…

— Vanessa Veselka

“Oh, you must be part of the underground no one’s ever heard about.” “I don’t belong to any group outside of my…

— Vanessa Veselka

Some things are so sad that they have no name. I have tried to name them and I can't.

— Vanessa Veselka

I light candles. I meditate. And I don't believe in anything. By default I move simultaneously towards mysticism and atheism. It's not…

— Vanessa Veselka

“You could always industrialize,” she refilled Jimmy’s wine glass. “You know, get a job stunning chickens in a factory to earn the…

— Vanessa Veselka

“I paid my bill. Save your fucking pennies for a gun and a history book...”

— Vanessa Veselka

“I tried to map the cultural trends leading up to it but as I did they grew, interconnecting and weaving backwards and…

— Vanessa Veselka

If you're with an agent and they don't like where your work is going - the pressure behind it is the pressure…

— Vanessa Veselka

“...if anybody was going to blow up the Superland™ Wal-Mart, it was going to be me. Not some fucking crusty punk.”

— Vanessa Veselka

There's a big part of me that's atheist. There's a big part of me that's agnostic. And there's a big part of…

— Vanessa Veselka

For me it comes down to one thing: I'm trying to follow my own nature.

— Vanessa Veselka

“The gentle rustle of armies crawling the planet like ants. Anybody with any sense knows what’s coming.”

— Vanessa Veselka

I learned to live in my own head. I learned to follow intuition and more than anything, I learned what was important…

— Vanessa Veselka

Being well-mannered and gracious and kind are things that I value really highly.

— Vanessa Veselka

But I know what it means to crave what you're not. To want to sew up that rift because it's exhausting to…

— Vanessa Veselka

“I like to think of myself as a coworker with lots of experience rather than a boss,” Franklin said. I like to…

— Vanessa Veselka

“I looked at the woman crying over the doll and felt something else. I was sick of people acting against their own…

— Vanessa Veselka