Lifescapes Quotes & Sayings

French rhetorical models are too narrow for the English tradition. Most pernicious of French imports is the notion that there is no person behind a text. Is there anything more affected, aggressive, and relentlessly concrete than a Parisan intellectual behind his/her turgid text? The Parisian is a provincial when he pretends to speak for the universe. — Camille Paglia

Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons, but one out of one. — Karl A. Menninger

That one brown house still had that hole in its garage door splintering like a chewed cookie smile, the hole the exact size and height of the car parked on the driveway in front of it. — Tim Kinsella

You can't eat language but it eases thirst. — Bernard Malamud

Consciousness is the stone that creates the waves in a sea of nothing — Richard Gerber