Mark Z. Danielewski Quote

Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.

To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic.

A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain.

We make, see, and love films, not digitals. To convert all of our movies, home videos, theaters, photographs and television to digital would be like telling a painter to throw away his brushes and can...

She wondered how many towns like this existed all over the country?Bucolic scenery on the outside, with its own private soap operas, gossips and hells on the inside. She wondered if the suburbs in hug...

…I love you, he said to her, although at that point he was certain she could no longer comprehend the words. I’d trade places with you in an instant, Mandy Valems… you never deserved this… why would a...

Maybe I'd always been broken and dark inside.

Truthfully she felt incredibly miserable, seeing university students and tourists bustling in and out of the place with their cell phones in hand, texting like there was no tomorrow. Living behind a s...

And I didn't think even eternity would be long enough to fix me.

I remember staying to look at it for a long time, as one would linger within reach of a consoling whisper. The sky was pearly grey. It was one of those overcast days so rare in the tropics, in which m...