Mathew

“and I began, fatally, with Dostoevsky”
― James Baldwin, Letter from a region in my mind

“I always had trouble ending short stories in ways that would satisfy a general public. In real life, as during a rerun following a timequake, people don't change, don't learn anything from
their mistakes, and don't apologize. In a short story they have to do at least two out of three of those things, or you might as well throw it away in the lidless wire trash receptacle chained and padlocked to the fire hydrant in front of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Timequake

“10. Camp sees everything in quotation marks. It’s not a lamp, but a
‘lamp’; not a woman, but a ‘woman’. To perceive Camp in objects and
persons is to understand Being-as-Playing-a-Role. It is the farthest
extension, in sensibility, of the metaphor of life as theater.”
― Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’

“5: So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great exploits. How great a forest is set ablaze by a small fire!”
― James