Amanda Perry

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

“Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?"

"I give."

"You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.”
― Roland Barthes

“I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest