Ali Smith, Autumn Quotes

Always be reading something, he said. Even when we're not physically reading. How else will we read the world? Think of it as a constant.

Brave old world.

This isn’t fiction, the man says. This is the Post Office.

Words are themselves organisms, ...

But, of course, memory and responsibility are strangers. They're foreign to each other. Memory always goes its own way quite regardless.

Is there any escaping the junkshop of the self?

Is there never any escaping the junkshop of the self?

It is perhaps rather fine, after all, being dead. Highly underrated in the modern western world.