"We are not here to love just one person, we are here to love everything in existence."

“I've learnt to accept what has happened to my voice, I suppose, but I do wish it didn't sound quite so rough.”

“Before music there was silence and the duet format allows you to build from the silence in a very special way.”

“Above all, the thrall in which an ideology holds a people is best measured by their collective inability to imagine alternatives.”

Source : Tony Judt (2010). “The Memory Chalet”, p.96, Penguin

“I gotta lose weight. I got stretch marks on my stomach and I never had a baby. So now when I take off my shirt in front of women, I tell them I was attacked by a mountain lion.”

“If you ever had your moon salted you'd know how painful that could be.”

“I try to tell student writers to read as much as possible, not only literature but philosophy, theory, and to form obsessions. There's a big taboo in fiction creative writing workshops against using the self at all, and I think I try to encourage students to write the self, but to connect the self to something larger, which is to be this thinking, seeing, searching, eternally curious person, and that writing can come out of investigating and trying to understand confusion, and doubts, and obsessions.”

“There are two kinds of people who lose money: those who know nothing and those who know everything.”

“The parasite of art, the virus of art, never ceases to gnaw awat at your brain, never ceases to torture you with the knowledge that whatever you’re doing could be done more beautifully, more powerfully, more stirringly, more disturbingly, more deeply.”

Source : Brian Morton (2004). “A Window Across the River”, p.96, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt