Fox Irving

“I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.”
― Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text

“The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity...”
― A. Edward Newton

“Words are all we have.”
― Samuel Beckett

“All I want is blackness. Blackness and silence.

(The actual Sylvia Plath quote from "The Moon and the Yew Tree" is:

"And the message of the yew tree is blackness –
blackness and silence.")”
― from the movie "Sylvia" (2003), incorrectly attributed to Sylvia Plath