Suzanne

“People see everything through the lens of their obsessions.”
― Francine Prose, Goldengrove

“In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the speed of the assembly line. At first, workers rebelled. They quit in droves, unable to accustom their bodies to the new pace of the age. Since then, however, the adaptation has been passed down: we've all inherited it to some degree, so that we plug right into joy-sticks and remotes, to repetitive motions of a hundred kinds.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

“Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.”
― Norman Mailer