Art makes nothing happen in a way that makes something happen.

Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late.

Every great narrative is at least two narratives, if not more - the thing that is on the surface and then the things underneath which are invisible.

Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean everything.

I wouldn't call my work Modernist. I would rust if I try to think about labels. I'd feel like the Tin Man in 'The Wizard of Oz.

To be known so well by someone is an unimaginable gift. But to be imagined so well by someone is even better.

Oh. To be filled with goodness then shattered by goodness, so beautifully mosaically fragmented by such shocking goodness.

Stella Duffy is a writer who never lets you down.

Do you come to art to be comforted, or do you come to art to be re-skinned?

We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once.

Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they're also a total joy.

...we’re not even really hiking, more like meandering in cinematic light.

A diligent hawker today, can be a great tycoon tomorrow

Just as you wouldn't leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn't start the day without at least 10 minutes of sacred practice: prayer, meditation, inspirational reading.

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.

It has become a crusade of mine to demonstrate that TV need not be violent to be exciting.

The day I got called up to the majors I wasn't feeling well. I had gone out with my friends for 'sodas' the night before.

You just cant predict baseball

In a zero-sum game, the problem is entirely one of distribution, not at all one of production.

Humiliation is a vast country of imprecise boundaries. If you think you're there, you are. The neurotic rule: when in doubt, go ahead and feel humiliated.

A state of mind is something that one assumes. It cannot be purchased, it must be created.