Stefanescu Quotes & Sayings

intelligence organizes the world by organizing itself" (CR, pp. — Ulrich Muller

I'm capable of living in the moment. And I'm especially capable of living in the moment of sitting on my sofa and watching other people's moments. — Samantha Bee

If you want to get into the shoes of someone, it's not just about seeing and hearing. It is also about what you touch and what you smell. Smell is so specific and so powerful. And this is the beauty of immersive theatre - it's something you cannot get in any other art form. I think this is the real future for theatre. — Lucien Bourjeily

I tried to laugh early on about ego and pride ... I do something great and then I do something really dumb and then I laugh. You'll always be that kid. — Matthew Ashford

C. S. Lewis introduced the phrase "pain, the megaphone of God." "God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains," he said; "it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world."3 The word megaphone is apropos, because by its nature pain shouts. When I stub my toe or twist an ankle, pain loudly announces to my brain that something is wrong. Similarly, the existence of suffering on this earth is, I believe, a scream to all of us that something is wrong. It halts us in our tracks and forces us to consider other values. — Philip Yancey

I walk making up phrases; sit, contriving scenes; am in short in the thick of the greatest rapture known to me. — Virginia Woolf

No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful. — Ernest Cline

Ideas for work are coming to me in abundance ... I'm going like a painting-locomotive. — Vincent Van Gogh

The staying still was the worst part. The waiting and not-knowing and being afraid: That was worse than anything else that might happen. — Ali Benjamin

The prose is deeply inspired by the tension between post- totalitarianism and consumer democracy. I am constantly probing the soft fleshy parts of the American dream. — Alina Stefanescu

I wake, the lump of last night
hiking a trail through my throat.

[from "Those Who Love Raptors"] — Alina Stefanescu