"Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children."

-- Ben Marcus

#Children Quotes #Fiction Quotes #Faces Quotes

“As long as ugly people are not on TV, you should only ever have interesting people on TV.”
“We need writers who fear nothing. ("Our Goal")”
“If people really grew up, there would be no crime, no divorce, no Civil War reenactors....it's not like you think it will be, that one day you'll wake up and realize that you've got things figured out. You never figure it out. Ever." - Isabel Spellman attempting to explain growing up to her sister Rae”
“... vulgarity has no nation.”
“I just want to do really good work.”
“The essential thing is to work in a state of mind that approaches prayer.”
“My son is the best thing that ever happened to me. And through me - to a lot of people.”
“Climate change is due to the use of energy for industrial growth, which has been and is overwhelmingly based on fossil fuels.”

Source : "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, truthout.org. September 17, 2016.

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