"If you look at it from another point of view, words can be very confusing. Because they are often beautiful and we have so many of them and although they are very powerful they have no will of their own, we can use them without permission-wildly, madly and get into terrible muddles."
— Janice Elliott

"a traveler, the purer form, someone who collects impressions, dense anatomies of feeling but does not care to record them."
— Don DeLillo

"I write about subectivety-and inarticulation-about life pushing you into a state where everything is melting until you're left with the absolute and you can find neither the words nor the images to express it."
— Deirdre Madden

"I was stumped. I always am in these discussions. Not that I lack insight or anything, it's just that I'm almost entirely innocent of opinions. Naked. It's sort of exciting!"
— Robert MacLean