“I felt myself leaving Earth in an intimidatingly disquieting manner, like I was on a vessel I hadn’t suspected to exist, departing a place I’d assumed was the only place.”— Tao Lin, amazon.com
“I’ve become increasingly interested in the idea that ‘the imagination’ is a place that is realer and larger than the universe.”— Tao Lin, thecreativeindependent.com
“Nobody knew how far innumerable planets with cottages and cows, might be situated in outer or inner space: ‘inner,’ because why not assume their micro-cosmic presence in the golden globules ascending quick-quick in this flute of Moët or in the corpuscles of my, Van Veen’s bloodstream, or in the pus…”— Vladimir Nabokov, Van Veen, amazon.com
“We're always wondering whether there might be life or intelligence on other planets, way up in the stars. But we never ask ourselves about the infinitely small. Maybe it could from there, from a universe that's even smaller than protons, electrons, and quarks.”— Félix Guattari, amazon.com
“Travel across great distances in outer space may not be the only way to reach worlds that are different from our own, seemingly remote in time and space. Moreover, it may be unnecessary to restrict this search using methods based upon a view of reality limited to what is physical and measurable. It…”— Rick Strassman, amazon.com