Helen DeWitt Quotes

The master swordsman isn't interested in killing people. He only wants to perfect his art.

If you don’t like a language, you can go write your own.

Perhaps this is the root of all evil, that gardeners are not put in charge of our schools.

There are people who think death a fate worse than boredom.

There are people who think contraception is immoral because the object of copulation is procreation. In a similar way there are people who think the only reason to read a book is to write a book.

I didn't want to go to sleep knowing I would just wake up in the morning.

Here was a man who'd learned to write before he could think, a man who threw out logical fallacies like tacks behind a getaway car, and he always always always got away.