Stirling Alexander

“The two most engaging powers of a good author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.”
― William M. Thackeray

“so I wait for you like a lonely house
till you will see me again and live in me.
Till then my windows ache.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“What more really can be at stake except life itself, which is why maybe artists are always equating the two and driving everybody crazy by insisting that art is life. Well. Cut us some slack. It’s harder work than one might imagine, and riskier, and takes a very special and dear kind of mad person.”
― Peter Heller, The Painter

“I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.”
― Albert Camus, L'Étranger