"Octavia Butler, of course, is brilliant and disturbing."

-- Sarah Zettel

#Brilliant Quotes #Butlers Quotes

“I've been lucky enough to have had the luxury of being able to make the picture I've wanted to make each time on my own terms and without compromise.”
“The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to.”
“The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom.”
“No one can tell what is righteous and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.”
“I see the task of architecture as the defense of the authenticity of human experience”

Source : "Encounters: Architectural Essays". Book by Juhani Pallasmaa, 2006.
“Heaven is a house full of miracles; yea, of spectacles and images of free grace.”
“My childhood was pretty ordinary, except from a very early age, I wanted to be scared. I just did. I was scared afterwards. I wanted a light on, because I was scared that there was something in the closet. My imagination was very active, even at a young age.”
“In Kamby Bolongo Mean River damage and delusion walk hand in hand, and everything we think we know is gradually called into question. Reading like a cross between Samuel Beckett's 'The Calmative' and Gordon Lish's Dear Mr. Capote, Robert Lopez's new novel gets under your skin and latches on.”

Source : Wendy Mass (2008). “Jeremy Fink and the meaning of life”

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