If you take hyphens seriously, you will surely go mad. - John Benbow in Manuscript and Proof, cited in The Making of a Name.
Quotable
We think what’s happening during sleep is that you open the aperture of memory and are able to see this bigger picture. - Neuroscientist Matthew Walker in a NYTimes article.
Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water. Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible, nothing can surpass it. - Lao-tzu in the Tao Te Ching, from a translation by S. Mitchell
[…] with just-in-time-delivery and what-have-you-done-for-me-lately being sovereign, everything is of the moment, and the noise is deafening. - Ken Alexander, in the July/August 2007 editorial of The Walrus
[…] a certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect. - Oshima in Haruki Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore
The mechanics of cognitive overload are similar to the problem of insufficient RAM. - John Lorinc in The Walrus
We are such stuff / As dreams are made on, and our little life / Is rounded with a sleep.
- Prospero in Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Act IV, Scene 1
Time is an anaconda and Montreal is the sadistic zookeeper that starves that anaconda, then drapes it around your neck. - A Voice in the Fog
In war, truth is the first casualty. - Aeschylus
I talk on the phone. I begin every day on the touch tone. This is what I need to bring me back. Voices.
- Delfina in Don DeLillo’s Valparaiso