Alan > Alan's Quotes

“I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's, but behind all of them, there's only one truth and that is that there is no truth... No truth behind all truths is what I and this church preach! Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place... In yourself right now is all the place you've got.”
― Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood

“Depression is melancholy minus its charms.”
― Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor

“Did you ever in your life,' he asked, 'mount a bicycle from the right?'
'I did not.'
'And why?'
'I do not know. I never thought about it.'
He laughed at me indulgently.
'It is nearly an insoluble pancake,' he smiled, 'a conundrum of inscrutable potentialities, a snorter.”
― Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman

“I am completely half afraid to think.”
― Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman

“Later he saw Jesus move from tree to tree in the back of his mind, a wild ragged figure motioning him to turn around and come off into the dark where he might be walking on the water and not know it and then suddenly know it and drown.”
― Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood