Jill

“I don't find perfection especially interesting. Art is not all about refinement and formal accomplishment. It is about passion and imagination and courage and these things that I didn't understand when I was kid being taught the rules. I realized that a novel could be. . .art could be. . . what I wanted to make it if I could pull it off.”
― Steve Erickson

“But you have to direct yourself out of this thing, not into it. Don't fold up.”
― Don DeLillo, The Body Artist

“Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.”
― Bertolt Brecht

“By the plain form of my delirium I will blast the obstruction of every form around me into something barely called shadow. I sail. I swim to you. I know the water.”
― Steve Erickson, Rubicon Beach