"Don't explain your author, read him right and he explains himself."

-- Mark Twain

“Say it, no ideas but in things - nothing but the blank faces of the houses and cylindrical trees bent, forked by preconception and accident - split, furrowed, creased, mottled, stained - secret - into the body of the light!”
“Memoirs are the backstairs of history.”
“I would like for my books to have been recognized posthumously, at least in capitalist countries, where they turn you into a kind of merchandise.”
“I never went out in the morning with the intention of getting drunk. It just happened.”
“Freedom from clinging allows us bring love into all aspects of our life.”
“If you lived with a roommate as unstable as capitalism...”
“How often, you wonder, has the direction of your life been shaped by such misunderstandings? How many opportunities have you been denied--or, for that matter, awarded--because someone failed to see you properly? How many friends have you lost, how many have you gained, because they glimpsed some element of your personality that shone through for only an instant, and in circumstances you could never reproduce? An illusion of water shimmering at the far bend of a highway.”

Source : Kevin Brockmeier (2008). “The View from the Seventh Layer: Stories”, p.123, Vintage
“Order is the primary regulation of the celestial regions.”

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