“To be Kaspar Hauser is to long, at every moment of your dubious existence, with every fiber of your questionable being, not… — Steven Millhauser Disability Copy Share Image
“After all, we were young. We were fourteen and fifteen, scornful of childhood, remote from the world of stern and ludicrous adults.… — Steven Millhauser Adolescence Copy Share Image
“Ennui had more distractions far more amusing than the automatons of a watchmaker in Mühlenberg.” — Steven Millhauser Writing Copy Share Image
“The more the mouse pursues this line of of thought, the more it seems to him that the cat is a large,… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
I had thought that words were instruments of precision. Now I know that they devour the world, leaving nothing in its place. — Steven Millhauser Instruments Copy Share Image
All words are masks and the lovelier they are, the more they are meant to conceal. — Steven Millhauser Language Copy Share Image
“I expected no miracles; I wasn't young enough for dreams; I knew in my bones that I couldn't escape my troubles by… — Steven Millhauser Dream Copy Share Image
“Do you believe that the actor on the stage is really a villain? Let me ask you something else. If he isn't… — Steven Millhauser Theatre Copy Share Image
“Awkward approximations, dull stammerings which cannot convey my sense of exhilaration as I seem to burst impediments, to exceed bounds of the… — Steven Millhauser Expansion Copy Share Image
“Art, he said, was a controlled madness...He said that books weren't made of themes, which you could write essays about, but of… — Steven Millhauser Art Copy Share Image
“We others are not like you. We are more prickly, more jittery, more restless, more secretive, more desperate, more cowardly, more bold.… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
