85 Quotes by Ben Marcus

Eventually you stop paying attention to your own feelings when there's nothing to be done about them.

Rain is used as white noise when God is disgusted by too much prayer, when the sky is stuffed to bursting with the noise of what people need.

Machineries of reason, machineries of conduct, machineries of virtue. The machine that regulates instinct, keeps one’s hands free of another man’s throat, free of one’s own. These machines have all, as someone said, gone too long in the elements. Gummed now, rusted, bloodless. I forget who said it and I no longer care.

Being with him was like being alone underwater - everything was slow; nothing counted; I could not be harmed; I would feel dry and cold when I resurfaced.

Fiction is too complicated and too elusive to break down into a set of tricks.

Spelling is a way to make words safe, at least for now, until another technology appears to soften attacks launched from the mouth.

My first book, ‘The Age of Wire and String,’ came out in 1995, and it was hardly reviewed at all.

I work, and then I leave the office, and I’m with my kids and just sort of enjoy them on a visceral level, and I don’t feel like I’m exorcising my own deep ideas about parenthood and about how my life will come into play in my work.

Being with him was like being alone underwater – everything was slow; nothing counted; I could not be harmed; I would feel dry and cold when I resurfaced.