Quotes About Author

I was playing it existential, and maybe a bit stupid, but it was the only way I knew how to play it.

May one plead, Your Honor, postmodernism as an involuntary condition?

I'd forgotten my identity as the world's most pathetic superhero, become a Californian instead.

I'd never pondered the bourgeois implications of an earplug.

His ironies were ghoulish now.

How's it feel to be a worthless jumbo diddly-ass puppetool?

The big Nazi cat went on raking up thread-loops from my trousers, seemingly intent on single-handedly reinventing Velcro.

Response to the question by The Atlantic: Who is the Greatest Fictional Character of All Time? God is the author of all the other characters, and of all the other authors of all the other characters, unless he doesn't exist--and said existence, in its disputation, is one of the greatest ongoing narratives in human storytelling.

All mankind is of one author and is one volume," John Donne wrote in one of his most beautiful meditations. "When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated.

What are your ghosts like?) (They are on the insides of the lids of my eyes.) (This is also where my ghosts reside.) (You have ghosts?) (Of course I have ghosts.) (But you are a child.) (I am not a child.) (But you have not known love.) (These are my ghosts, the spaces amid love.)

Do you have any coffee?'...'It stunts my growth, and I'm afraid of death.

I went to the guest room and pretended to write. I hit the space bar again and again and again. My life story was spaces.

the meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river, I was the tree, the world was the river.

The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that beauty always takes place in the particular. Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction.

There are many premium writers, yes? Tolstoy, yes? He wrote War , and also Peace , which are both premium books.

There are only two reactions to climate change: resignation or resistance. We can submit to death, or we can use the prospect of death to emphasize life.

He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that could you recommend.

Yes, I cannot dispute that she is crazy. But she is also compassionate.

THE PROBLEM OF GOOD: WHY UNCONDITIONALLY GOOD THINGS HAPPEN TO UNCONDITIONALLY BAD PEOPLE (SEE GOD)

Jacob was right when, after Sam's injury, he said it was too much love for happiness.

I had no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.

Thomas! What are you doing! and I gestured, I thought this was Nothing, covering myself with one of my daybooks ,and she said, It's Something!

he felt that he too was only a baby, with the chance to live without shame, without the need for consolation for a life lived wrong, a chance to be again innocent, simply and impossibly happy.

Temple Grandin has argued that ordinary people can become sadistic from the dehumanizing work of constant slaughter.