Arman

“When the moon was full, my mother would burn sandlewood incense throughout her flat with the windows closed. Kali Mata had told her to do this to vanquish evil spirits and mosquitoes. We stopped the practice for a year when the doctor said it was giving me asthma. Ma believes that was the year everything went wrong.”
― Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar

“A writer creates a character as a way to reveal consciousness, increase the flow of meaning. This is how we reply to power and beat back our fear.”
― Don DeLillo, Mao II

“Only shallow people insist on disbelief. You and I know better. We understand how reality is invented. A person sits in a room and thinks a thought and it bleeds out into the world. Every thought is permitted. And there's no longer a moral or spatial distinction between thinking and acting.”
― Don DeLillo, Mao II

“Jennifer Lynch: "My father deeply loved both of his parents, but he also despised all that
goodness, the white picket fence and all that. He has a romantic idea of
that stuff, but he also hated it because he wanted to smoke cigarettes
and live the art life, and they went to church and everything was perfect
and quiet and good. It made him a little nutty.”
― David Lynch, Room to Dream