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 think about it, though he in fact avoids the subject pathologically, he allows himself to think it now: What if the woman on Hester Street is right, and the next few years are his last? The… — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share
“Is there such a thing as too much pleasure? When Simon imagines the bathhouses, he thinks of a carnival of gluttony, an underworld so endless it seems possible to stay there forever. What he’s said to Robert isn’t a lie – he is afraid he wouldn’t be able to take it – but he’s also afraid he would, that his… — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share
“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
