"Chair or no chair: a binary relation. But the vicissitudes of moving the body around are infinite. You never know what a person in a chair can do."
— Sarah Manguso

"A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."
— Thomas Mann

"The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you."
— David Foster Wallace

"You have got to goad yourself toward a becoming that is in accordance with what you are innate. You have got to sometimes become the medicine you want to take."
— Ariana Reines (The Cow)