Sohum

“When we talk about an object of desire, we are really talking about a cluster of promises we want someone or something to make to us and make possible for us.”
― Lauren Berlant, The Affect Theory Reader

“Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.”
― Karl Marx

“I have never been able to understand people with consistent lives – people who, for example, grow up in a liberal Catholic household and stay that way; or who in junior high school are already laying down a record on which to run for president one day. Imagine having no discarded personalities, no vestigial selves, no visible ruptures with yourself, no gulf of self-forgetfulness, nothing that requires explanation, no alien version of yourself that requires humor and accommodation. What kind of life is that?”
― Michael Warner

“I believe that the imagination is the passport we create to take us into the real world. I believe the imagination is another phrase for what is most uniquely us.”
― John Guare, Six Degrees of Separation: A Play