Stephen Marche Quotes & Sayings

We have never been more detached from one another, or lonelier. In a world consumed by ever more novel modes of socializing, we have less and less actual society. We live in an accelerating contradiction: The more connected we become, the lonelier we are. — Stephen Marche

Money can turn into everything but we can only turn into ourselves. — Stephen Marche

The wilderness within us is actually the best part of us. — Stephen Marche

Toronto may be the only city where novels are integral to high art, the alternative scene and mainstream culture all at the same time. — Stephen Marche

Only idiots or snobs ever really thought less of 'genre books' of course. There are stupid books and there are smart books. There are well-written books and badly written books. There are fun books and boring books. All of these distinctions are vastly more important than the distinction between the literary and the non-literary. — Stephen Marche