Hayden Vanier

“I’ve always said that my ideal reader would be someone who after finishing one of my novels would throw it out the window, presumably from an upper floor of an apartment building in New York, and by the time it had landed would be taking the elevator down to retrieve it.”
― Harry Mathews

“Literature is humanity talking to itself.”
― Norman Rush

“Many heterosexual marriages are childless; many with children break up: they are no guarantee that children will be raised in a house with two parents of two genders. The courts have scoffed at the reproduction and child-raising argument against marriage equality. And the conservatives have not mounted what seems to be their real objection; that they wish to preserve traditional marriage and more than that, traditional gender roles.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me

“Alors, soudain, l’immensité silencieuse du cri. Ne va pas me dire que tu ne m’entends pas. J’ai la gorge pleine de fracas indispensables.”
― Geneviève Amyot, Je t'écrirai encore demain