"I am one of the crucified dead."

-- William Henry Moody

“Like most of us, I'm used to juggling about 52 roles in life. Wife. Mother. Sister. Friend. Author. Sometimes I feel a bit 'multiple-personality'.”
“We do literature a real disservice if we reduce it to knowledge or to use, to a problem to be solved. If literature solves problems, it does so by its own inexhaustibility, and by its ultimate refusal to be applied or used, even for moral good. This refusal, indeed, is literature's most moral act. At a time when meanings are manifold, disparate, and always changing, the rich possibility of interpretation--the happy resistance of the text to ever be fully known and mastered--is one of the most exhilarating products of human culture.”

Source : Marjorie Garber (2011). “The Use and Abuse of Literature”, p.30, Vintage
“His Son Jesus, the Word of God, is our Instructor.... He is God and Creator.”
“Beware of begging God for things you don't have to have.”
“For a moment everything was clear, and when that happens you see that the world is barely there at all. Don't we all secretly know this? It's a perfectly balanced mechanism of shouts and echoes pretending to be wheels and cogs, a dreamclock chiming beneath a mystery-glass we call life. Behind it? Below it and around it? Chaos, storms. Men with hammers, men with knives, men with guns. Women who twist what they cannot dominate and belittle what they cannot understand. A universe of horror and loss surrounding a single lighted stage where mortals dance in defiance of the dark.”
“I want to know what the difference between the essence of a man and woman is.”
“I will never be a skinny waif as I am physically unable to say "no" to free booze and snacks. Oh well.”

Source : Twitter post from Apr 11, 2014
“Pliny... makes the statement, and for untrustworthiness of statement he cannot easily be surpassed.”

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