"I cannot walk under the wires. The sparrows scatter like handfuls of gravel. Really, wires are voices in thin strips. They are words wound in cables. Bars of connection."

-- William H. Gass

#Voice Quotes #Wire Quotes #Bars Quotes

“A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - and they are never the same.”

Source : "The Invention and Reinvention of the City: An Interview with Rem Koolhaas". Interview with Paul Fraioli, jia.sipa.columbia.edu. April 19, 2012.
“When you get inside a literary novel you feel that the author, more often than not, just doesn't know enough about things. They haven't been around enough - novelists never go anywhere. Once I discovered true books about real things - books like 'How To Run a Company' - I stopped reading novels.”
“... there is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more fun.”
“When it comes right down to it, someone else may be signing your paycheck but you are the person who fills in the amount.”
“Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.”
“I long for truth, and yet I cannot stay from that My better self disowns, For a man's attention Brings such satisfaction To the craving in my bones.”
“Dying--shucks! If you kin handle the living, what's to be afraid of the dying?”
“God doesn't ask you to figure it all out. He only asks you to believe.”

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