24 Quotes by Barry Webster

Sam believes now that people repeatedly collide with each other swiftly, brutally – not to produce children but to shatter their sense of self, and be thrust into a creative space beyond reason, where anything can happen. Only through the destruction of psychological borders is freedom possible.

The ridiculous is closer to life’s source than the sensible.

Again Sam’s genitals became rock, and this astonished him as much as anything. Through Franz, he was becoming the stone Earth; the final border separating him from the planet was disappearing. And this transformation to rock was fuelled by desire, the most ephemeral thing on Earth.

I am not the wicked stepmother in this fairy’s tale.

If this were a fairy tale, that meant the dragon had been slain. Or hadn’t arrived yet.

The fairy tale about the people who freely detach and re-attach appendages still inspires Sam. He remembers the character who interchanged his earlobes and testicles so he could acutely hear his ejaculations and enjoy a tightening at the side of his head whenever the weather got cold.

But I feel vanity is a part of art and the non-vain are really non-artistic.

The breach between the mind and body can’t be healed by more knowledge.”“Then we’ll go shopping. It’s the only way to solve a crisis.

Sarcasm is the language of people whose emotions are dying.