All quotes are taken from Jonny Sun's Goodbye, again (2021)
- On plants: "When the plants I care for grow, it feels like they are teaching me to experience my own happiness in slow motion, over the course of weeks, months. And when they die, when they start to dry out, or wilt, or rot at the root, they die slowly, too."
- On work: "I am trying to catch myself more whenever I think about work as something that is alive. When work is 'pressuring' someone, or 'growing,' or 'needs attention,' what does that mean? I am all for giving life to inanimate objects, to anthropomorphize work feels different, more dangerous to me. I think that maybe I imbue or I have learned to imbue work with this idea of life because I need work to survive. And if I have to work instead of live, the work itself might as well live, since I apparently cannot."
- On collaboration: "Something I've learned to tell myself about collaboration is that if I find people to work on something with at a time when we are all available and excited to work on something together, then I should drop everything and take the opportunity to work with them. That window may disappear tomorrow. Either they will get busy or I will or the motivation or inspiration or energy will disappear the next day. I have to do it now or it might be gone forever."
- On ideas: "But even if the idea doesn't make sense, I still value it because that feeling of having figured something out is one that I find myself enjoying, even when the thing that has been figured out reveals itself to not be anything at all."
- On creativity: "Maybe the lag time between when you make something and when people see it is important, as it gives you enough time to mourn who you have preserved away before everyone else sees who that is for the first time."
