Quotes About Lamp-posts

I never got used to the way the horizon there could just erase itself and leave you marooned, adrift, in an incomplete dreamscape that was like a sketch for the world you knew—the outline of a single tree standing in for a grove, lamp-posts and chimneys floating up out of context before the surrounding canvas was filled in—an amnesia-land, a kind of skewed Heaven where the old landmarks were recognizable but spaced too far apart, and disarranged, and made terrible by the emptiness

Critics are to authors what dogs are to lamp-posts.

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination.

He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts, more for support than illumination.