Ben

“Anthropological theory assumes that exposure in a treeless situation where all escape upwards was cut off led to the invention of myths. Kafka's ape, dragged into human society, expresses very similar ideas in his 'Report for an Academy'. It is the absence of any way of escape that has forced him to become human himself.”
― W.G. Sebald, Campo Santo

“This is what is known as perspective, and it is a swindle.”
― Kurt Schwitters

“There's a safety in thinking in a diner. You can have your coffee or your milkshake, and you can go off into strange dark areas, and always come back to the safety of the diner.”
― David Lynch

“A poet should establish a whole new set of possibilities for the reader and for him- or herself.”
― J.H. Prynne