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“People hold books in a special way—like they hold nothing else. They hold them not like inanimate things but like ones that have gone to sleep. Children often carry toys in the same manner.”

– John Berger, Bento’s Sketchbook

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“A protest is not principally a sacrifice made for some alternative, more just future; it is an inconsequential redemption of the present. The problem is how to live time and again with the adjective inconsequential.”

– John Berger, Bento’s Sketchbook

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“When the laws of the market governing the sphere of commodity exchange and of social labor also pervaded the sphere reserved for private people as a public, rational-critical debate had a tendency to be replaced by consumption, and the web of public communication unraveled into acts of individuated reception, however uniform in mode.”

– Jürgen Habermas

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“(Carelessness for him is a reminder of the farce that life risks becoming.)”

– John Berger

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“For it seemed to me that much more truth could be found in the reasonings which a man makes concerning matters that concern him than in those which some scholar makes in his study about speculative matters.”

– Rene Descartes

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“The tradition of the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the minds of the living.”

– Karl Marx

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“Even if Freud himself expresses the hope that someday biological science will confirm and build on his insights, this just shows that he doesn’t understand fully the nature of his own theory. The lasting value of psychoanalysis depends on the fact that no scientific discovery will ever confirm its validity. To hope for this is to abandon the project, even if unwittingly.”

– Todd McGowan, Embracing Alienation

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“Because subjectivity is always alienated, far from mastering the world, it is necessarily in a skewed relation to the world. To be a subject is always to relate to one’s world from a distance.”

– Todd McGowan, Embracing Alienation

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“Every movement seems not so much choreographed as the result of a very specific decision she has made just at that moment.”

– Stacey D’Erasmo on Valda Setterfield

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“We are not free. And the sky can still fall on our heads. And the theatre has been created to teach us that first of all.”

– Antonin Artaud

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“We need to go back to, somehow, publishing each other and ourselves. And sometimes publishing books, when we can, but knowing that’s not where the community happens.”

– Kate Zambreno

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“Chaque forêt est un mystère. Chaque nuit ne connaît pas de lendemain.”

– David Clerson, Mon fils ne revint que sept jours

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“Something is taking its course, engorged with time, making his body a total wound.”

– Herbert Blau, “Barthes and Beckett”

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Once I thought that art would save me and it did not. Now I do not know what to do with myself. I do not know how. I did not expect any of this. I am at a loss.

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“Bookshelves are both the sepulchres which the dead poets haunt and the aeternal gardens where they live and grow, passed into text that respires when we read.”

– Olchar E. Lindsann

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“I would not be able to have said certain things if I had been under the obligation to unify the word and the deed. As it is I can let my words reach out and net impossible things—things that are impossible for me to do. And this is a way of paying the price for saying or seeing things.”

– Norman O. Brown