Sven Axelrad > Quotes

“The human soul may begin pure white, immaculately laundered, but who among us can stop the dirt of life from soiling something so clean?”
― Sven Axelrad, Buried Treasure

“libraries are barometric chambers for the inconsolably lonely of the world”
― Sven Axelrad, Buried Treasure

“In this way the vacant lot acts as a religious catch-all, the anti-church of churches, an amalgamation of others. It’s full of dogs too, who are there to worship the humans, as well as the occasional cat which comes not to worship but to be worshipped.”
― Sven Axelrad, Buried Treasure

“she told me not to worry so much - I was dead now and all the worrying had to stop at some point.”
― Sven Axelrad, Buried Treasure

“We are a collection of everything that has happened to us, which is to say we are stories.”
― Sven Axelrad, Buried Treasure

“One must take drastic measures when faced with becoming an accountant”
― Sven Axelrad, God's Pocket

“Pain is the only way to be good at anything, and the best way to be in pain is to fall in love.”
― Sven Axelrad, The Dogs of Vivo

“To think that what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger is perhaps naïve. Let’s just say that what doesn’t kill us maims us in strange and interesting ways.”
― Sven Axelrad, The Dogs of Vivo