Jill

“1939. Love rages. It cries out from you, seething and red; I come back for more and more.”
― Steve Erickson, Tours of the Black Clock

“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

“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