Identity is as absurd and contradictory, I think - and certainly as mutable - as the human brain. — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
It's an unbelievable, absurd paradox that we have to put one step in front of the other every day without knowing which one will be our last. — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in the tension between knowledge and mystery, between science and religion, and the various ways we cope with the unknown.… — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
“Klara has always known she’s meant to be a bridge: between reality and illusion, the present and the past, this world and the next.… — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
“So, this is how it started: as a secret, a challenge, a fire escape they used to dodge the hulking mass of their mother,… — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
I did invent the idea of using lucid dreaming to treat sleep disorders, but I was influenced by many real-life researchers - from forefathers… — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
I think much of my own quest in life is to figure out how best to cope with my own uncertainties. — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
I think readers either love or hate nonlinear storytelling, and it's true that it can be more difficult, both to write and to read. — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
“In New York, he would live for them, but in San Francisco, he could live for himself. And though he does not like to… — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
“Is there such a thing as too much pleasure? When Simon imagines the bathhouses, he thinks of a carnival of gluttony, an underworld so… — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
“He believes in bad choices; he believes in bad luck. And yet the memory of the woman on Hester Street is like a miniscule… — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
“No vices?’ ‘No vices.’ ‘Except men,’ Simon says. A tree branch waves in front of the living room window, blocking the sun, and Robert’s… — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
My mom is Episcopalian; my dad is ancestrally Jewish but personally atheist. After their divorce, however, my dad married a Jewish spiritual director, and… — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by dreams - they seem like such intriguing evidence of the brain's obsession with narrative as a form of sense-making.… — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
“Simon still feels high, remembering how it felt to dance with those beautiful, sculpted men, how it felt to be adored. For a moment,… — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
My favorite writer is Alice Munro. It's simply amazing how well she captures entire lifetimes in a single short story. — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
