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“Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, 'I'll be dead,' you've said the word I, and so you're still alive inside the sentence. And that's how people got the idea of the immortality of the soul - it was a consequence of grammar.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood

“Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination.”
― Jeanette Winterson

“To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

“Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying.”
― Walter Kirn, Mission to America