Stephen Evans > Quotes

“Memory is imagination in reverse.”
― Stephen Evans, The Marriage of True Minds

“A comic book in mint condition is an offense against the multiverse. I only collect damaged comics with torn covers and missing pages.”
― Stephen Evans

“Kierkegaard, like Nietzsche a half-century later, sees the human self not simply as a finished product, a kind of entity, but as a developing process. A self is not simply something I am but something I must become…To be a self is to embark on a process in which one becomes something…Essentially, a person is in despair if they fail to be fully a self. An awareness of the emptiness of self results in that feeling we normally call despair….”
― Stephen Evans

“Violence begins when imagination fails.”
― Stephen Evans

“I keep imagining that someone will read what I write, if I keep imagining.”
― Stephen Evans, The Laughing String: Thoughts on Writing

“Do you know the definition of insanity?" Sharon asked.
"Yes," said Lena. "It starts with an L.”
― Stephen Evans, The Marriage of True Minds

“Not wisely but too well.”
― Stephen Evans