Cynthia Davidson > Cynthia's Quotes

“Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets.”
― Jacques Derrida

“Shit is a more onerous theological problem than is evil.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are.”
― Martin Heidegger

“ ‘Tell me what you read and I’ll tell you who you are’ is true enough, but I’d know you better if you told me what you reread.”
― François Mauriac

“As for me, I am a watercolor.
I wash off.”
― Anne Sexton