Lawrence Weschler > Quotes

“When someone witnesses something amazing, what matters most is not 'out there' . . . but deep within, at the vital emotional center of witness.”
― Lawrence Weschler, Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology

“Indeed, tone or voice is what you get when, larynxlike, you breathe through structure.”
― Lawrence Weschler

“I'm inhibited, isolated, haunted, unknown. However, I haven't compromised myself. And although I lie a good deal, it's mostly whimsical. I'm not living a lie, like the vindicator.”
― Lawrence Weschler, And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?: A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks

“The geology museum had a wonderful dullness." We make our way over to a case full of geodes, before Oliver pauses transfixed. "I love the idea of something dull on the outside, and spectacular and crystalline on the inside.”
― Lawrence Weschler, And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?: A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks

“Do you believe in God?
"I believe in the divine: Mendelssohn is divine.
"I believe in grace: All natural movements are graceful.
"I believe in the mystical mathematics of heaven, which is to say grace beyond the algorithm of causality."
What about out-of-body experiences in those just returned from death's brink?
“Hell, one has a vision of heaven all the time!”
― Lawrence Weschler, And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?: A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks

“...Hume's notion that we are nothing but a bundle of sensations succeeding one another with inconceivable rapidity, that any coherent sense of personhood is hence sort of overarching fiction, a state of affairs that may or may not be the case on average.”
― Lawrence Weschler, And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?: A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks