Rivka Galchen Quotes

I've always thought of my own mind as an unruly parliament, with a feeble leader, with crazy extremist factions.

Physics advances by accepting absurdities. Its history is one of unbelievable ideas proving to be true.

But one day I woke up and heard myself saying, I am a fork being used to eat cereal. I am not a spoon. I am a fork. And I can’t help people eat cereal any longer.

The magnificently humble. The enormously small. The meaningfully ridiculous. Robert Walser's work often reads like a dazzling answer to the question, How immense can modesty be?

Then the nurse did turn to glance, and then stare—actually stare—at me. His look made me feel as if I was green, or whistling, or dead.

It's true what they say, that a baby gives you a reason to live. But also, a baby is a reason that it is not permissible to die. There are days when this does not feel good.

He is my unicorn, though... That's how I felt falling in love with him, as if I'd found a creature of myth.