“It’s a strange business, speaking for yourself, in your own name, because it doesn’t at all come with seeing yourself as an ego or a person or a subject. Individuals find a real name for themselves, rather, only through the harshest exercise in depersonalization, by opening themselves up to the mult…”— Gilles Deleuze, amazon.com
“You never come back, not all the way. Always there is an odd distance between you and the people you love and the people you meet, a barrier thin as the glass of a mirror, you never come all the way out of the mirror; you stand, for the rest of your life, with one foot in this world and one in anoth…”— Marya Hornbacher, amazon.com
“Those who claim to write about something larger and more significant than the self sometimes fail to comprehend the dimensions of the self.”— Sarah Manguso, amazon.com