Ben Katchor famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The click [of a light switch] is the modern triumphal clarion proceeding us through life, announcing our entry into every lightless room.
-- Ben Katchor

#Technology #Light #Rooms
I always lived in old buildings, and I thought about who lived here before. You'd have to be oblivious not to.
-- Ben Katchor

#Building #Oblivious
I never wore a watch. I always depend on public clocks, and stores have clocks, but that is strange.
-- Ben Katchor

#Watches #Strange #Clock
You can have your own watch and always doubt it. If I had a watch I'd probably always be doubting it or the batteries would be dying. I just know that people always have trouble with their watches, and that's why I like public clocks.
-- Ben Katchor

#People #Doubt #Dying
I live in an apartment building built in 1925, and it hasn't been heavily renovated, so I feel very much connected to that time and what went on in that place.
-- Ben Katchor

#Building #Feels #Apartment
As a small kid, I came across things like these early Edward Gorey books in department-store bookstores. These were these really unusual objects to me. I didn't know how they fit into the comic world or into newspaper comics.
-- Ben Katchor

#Book #Kids #World
A picture story just doesn't run like a film. It doesn't have 24 frames per second. It doesn't deal with this illusion of movement.
-- Ben Katchor

#Running #Stories #Movement
What sort of attractions do you think lured our coreligionists out of the ghetto and into the mainstream of European culture? Was it the wit of MoliÃ¨re, or the ingenious stage mechanisms of PixÃ©rÃ©court? Or was it simply the opportunity to cast an eye, without shame, upon the living, unclad human form?
-- Ben Katchor

#Ghetto #Eye #Opportunity
I was born Moishe Ketzelbourd but the Indians call me Maurice Cougar.
-- Ben Katchor

#Born #Cougars #Call Me
I've wasted the last five years of my life dealing in religious articles. People today find spiritual solace in ballroom dancing.
-- Ben Katchor

#Spiritual #Religious #Years
Goat curry and a female librarian, that's what I'm in the mood for.
-- Ben Katchor

#Female #Goats #Mood
I'm very interested in music and where these sounds of Western music come from.
-- Ben Katchor

#Sound #Western

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