Have I ever said that Turner once actually had himself…

“Si es arte no es para todos, y si es para todos no es arte.”

— David Markson

“One can very agreeably ignore a rain by walking in it. In fact it is when one allows a rain to prevent one from…

— David Markson

“On the other hand it is probably safe to assume that Rembrandt and Spinoza surely would have at least passed on the street, now…

— David Markson

Doubtless these are inconsequential perplexities. Still, inconsequential perplexities have now and again been known to become the fundamental mood of existence, one suspects.

— David Markson

“A simple creature unlettyrde. Julian of Norwich called herself. The most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress. Echoed Jane…

— David Markson

In fact one frequently seemed to gather all sorts of similar information about subjects one had less than profound interest in.

— David Markson

“Every single one of the letters having been identical.”

— David Markson

“Very possibly this was what was in Wittgenstein's own mind all of those years later, in face, when he said that you do no…

— David Markson

“In the beginning, sometimes I left messages in the street.”

— David Markson

“Mahatma Gandhi: No veo virtud en estar desinformado.”

— David Markson

“Demasiadas notas, mi querido Mozart.”

— David Markson

“Helen ran off with a lover only once in her life herself, and for three thousand years nobody would ever let her forget about…

— David Markson

Is T.S. Eliot the only poet one can think of who could have spent a year on his own in Paris at twenty-three—and managed…

— David Markson

“Coincidences undeniably imply meaning. I am rereading Hart Crane. I notice the date On which he stepped off that boat Was April 26. Tomorrow…

— David Markson

Once, I had a dream of fame. Generally, even then, I was lonely.

— David Markson