Madhuri

“I read and I read; and I was like a medieval king, I had fallen in love with the picture long before I saw the reality.”
― John Fowles, The Magus

“Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
― David Foster Wallace

“Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.”
― James Baldwin

“I think the world divides neatly into those who are excited by the managed induction of terror and those who are not. I do not find terror exciting. I find it terrifying. One of my basic goals is to subject my nervous system to as little total terror as possible. The cruel paradox of course is that this kind of makeup usually goes hand in hand with a delicate nervous system that's extremely easy to terrify.”
― David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments