5 quotes
It is the nature of the writer to question the validity of his world and yet rely on his senses to describe it. From what other tension can great literature be born?
City of Saints and Madmen (2001)
An inordinate love of ritual can be harmful to the soul, unless, of course, in times of great crisis, when ritual can protect the soul from fracture.
City of Saints and Madmen (2001)
A fresh river in a beautiful meadow
Imagined in his mind
The good Painter, who would some day paint it
City of Saints and Madmen (2001)
I could not move or speak for several minutes, frozen in the belief that the book itself had changed and was now writing me.
City of Saints and Madmen (2001)
It closely resembles the situation that exists within a mental institution: in tight quarters, in similar garb, dissimilar minds attempt to build a consensus reality that, with a monumental effort of empathy, cannot—can never!—take concrete form.
City of Saints and Madmen (2001)