Daniel Hecht > Quotes

“Only when you are dangerous are you truly equal to the world.”
― Daniel Hecht, Bones of the Barbary Coast

“I astonish myself with my immaturity. Remind me, when’s that hard-bitten self-sufficiency supposed to kick in?”
― Daniel Hecht, On Brassard’s Farm: A Novel

“The sinister is always the unintelligible, the impressive, the numinous. Wherever something divine appears, we begin to experience fear. . . . Everything that has to do with salvation possesses, among other things, a sinister, unfamiliar character; it always includes the superhuman. It is a specifically human trait to find joy in destruction. —ADOLF GUGGENBUHL-CRAIG”
― Daniel Hecht, Skull Session

“Gek hoe de opwinding van de jacht je vergaat als jij degene bent die wordt opgejaagd.”
― Daniel Hecht

“...I guess I've got a case of existential angst. Low blood sugar. Time on the wing. Ask not for whom the bell tolls. Et cetera.”
― Daniel Hecht, Skull Session