Surya Darmana

“I keep telling you that often the search proves more profitable than the goal.”
― E.L. Konigsburg, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs Basil E. Frankweiler

“It is a cruel task, to frighten people in God’s name.”
― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale

“I do not like half answers.'
'Stop asking half questions, then,' he said, and smiled with sudden charm.”
― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale

“The key to the creative type is that he is separated out of the common pool of shared meanings. There is something in his life experience that makes him take in the world as a problem; as a result he has to make personal sense out of it. This holds true for all creative people to a greater or lesser extent, but it is especially obvious with the artist. Existence”
― Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death