'… this is why Montaigne tends to annotate his books, underlining passages and writing at the end the date on which he read them, or the impression that they made on him in that moment. This is not the art of the critic, nor even the art of the writer, it is merely a dialogue with pencil in hand; at the beginning he is far from any desire to set down anything coherent himself. But little by little the solitude of his room begins to act on him; the silent voices of the books demand a response ever more urgently, and, in order to master the run of his thoughts, he writes them down.'

'We look at trees and at television sets.'

'... they often end up suffering from delusions of intelligence.'

'… the contention of the minde, overstretched to her enterprise, doth breake and impeach the same…'

'We need images of desperation to grasp political and internal warfare.'

'... Only writers show us how to speak...'

'How could anyone hide behind the I?'

Snow.

'I'm in the middle right now.'