I have a sense of going my own way, and I don't really think much about whether it's going against the grain. I don't really want ...to spend a lot of time worrying about how I am perceived by other people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move is instantly deconstructive. F...or if the complex can be put into the simple, then it cannot be as complex as it seemed in the first place; and if the simple can be an adequate medium of such complexity, then it cannot after all be as simple as all that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman "other" or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is ...no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Have We not made the earth as a cradle and the mountains as pegs?... And We created you in pairs, and We appointed your sleep for a rest; and We appointed night for a garment, and We appointed day for a livelihood. And We have built above you seven strong ones, and We appointed a blazing lamp and have sent down out of the rain-clouds water cascading that We may bring forth thereby grain and plants, and gardens luxuriant.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »