Quotes from Lance Olsen

For Guy Davenport--whom he told me John Barth once called the last modernist--modernism is 'a renaissance of the archaic'.

Education isn't something your professors make for you. It's something you make for yourself.

All this seeing. All this relentless taking in.

I'll live to be one year younger, because I can't stand the idea of a world without you in it, and die buried beneath an avalanche of my own books.

Everything changes, sweetheart. The universe loves to happen.