Jay Schwartz

“Her stare fixed me. Without rancour and without regret; without triumph and without evil; as Desdemona once looked back on Venice.

On the incomprehension, the baffled rage of Venice. I had taken myself to be in some way the traitor Iago punished, in an unwritten sixth act. Chained in hell. But I was also Venice; the state left behind; the thing journeyed from.”
― John Fowles, The Magus

“Whenever you get there, there is no there there.”
― Gertrude Stein

“Thousands of years have slipped by since those days, but you need no late-coming lover to snatch your memory from the power of oblivion; for every mother-tongue commemorates you—and still you reward your lover more gloriously than anyone.”
― Soren Kierkegaard, Fear And Trembling

“Utram bibis? Aquam an undam? Which are you drinking? The water or the wave?”
― John Fowles, The Magus