“Not all complex problems have easy solutions; so says science (so warns science.)”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.comTagged: Science, solutions, Problems
“I've come to believe errors, especially written errors, are often the only markers left by a solitary life: to sacrifice them is to lose the angles of personality, the riddle of a soul.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.comTagged: Errors, Mistakes, Spell Check
“The finest act of seeing is necessarily always the act of not seeing something else.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.comTagged: seeing, Paying Attention, Ignoring
“I do not know anything about Art with a capital A. What I do know about is my art. Because it concerns me. I do not speak for others. So I do not speak for things which profess to speak for others. My art, however, speaks for me. It lights my way.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.comTagged: Art, Artist, Writers
“Knowledge is hot water on wool. It shrinks time and space.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.comTagged: Knowledge, Time, Space
“Do not wake me from this slumber, but be assured that just as I have wept much, I have also wandered many roads with my thoughts.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.comTagged: Sleeping, Slumber, Thoughts
“'To read' actually comes from the Latin reri 'to calculate, to think' which is not only the progenitor of 'read' but of 'reason' as well, both of which hail from the Greek arariskein 'to fit.' Aside from giving us 'reason,' arariskein also gives us an unlikely sibling, Latin arma meaning 'weapons.'…”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.comTagged: Reading, Books, latin
“Explanation is not half as strong as experience but experience is not half as strong as experience and understanding.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.comTagged: explanation, Experience, Understanding
“People frequently comment on the emptiness in one night stands, but emptiness here has always been just another word for darkness. Blind encounters writing sonnets no one can ever read. Desire and pain communicated in the vague language of sex.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.comTagged: Sex, One Night Stands, Pain, Desire
“Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.'”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.comTagged: mature, Acceptance, unknown
“For some reason, you will no longer be the person you believed you once were. You'll detect slow and subtle shifts going on all around you, more importantly shifts in you.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.comTagged: Changes, Growth, Shifts
“And there you have it, another body on the floor surrounded by things that don't mean much to anyone except to the one who can't take any of them along.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.comTagged: Death, Material Items, Bodies
“Without you, I am only revolutions of ruin.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.comTagged: Revolutions, ruin, Relationships
“Youth always tries to fill the void, an old man learns to live with it.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.comTagged: Youth, young, Old, Age
“Some people reflect light, some deflect it, you by some miracle, seem to collect it.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.comTagged: Light, Reflect, Deflect
“Scars are the paler pain of survival received unwillingly and displayed in the language of injury.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.comTagged: Scars, Survival, Injury
“I still get nightmares. In fact, I get them so often I should be used to them by now. I'm not. No one ever really gets used to nightmares.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.comTagged: nightmares, Night Terrors, Afraid
“Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.comTagged: Passion, Patience, Suffering
“Focus on these words, and whatever you do don’t let your eyes wander past the perimeter of this page. Now imagine just beyond your peripheral vision, maybe behind you, maybe to the side of you, maybe even in front of you, but right where you can’t see it, something is quietly closing in on you, so q…”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.comTagged: Horror, creepy, monsters