Books Quote by Gary Snyder

“They made an ingenuous and disorganized effort to escape from captivity but ultimately failed, because they were unable to find the bars of the…

— Daniel Quinn

Imprisoned in a cage of sound, even the trivial seems profound

— John Betjeman

“A cage stokes our emotions and imaginations, regardless of whether you are inside looking out, or outside looking in.”

— Michael Makai

Modern literature seduces with insults, riddles, and inside stories.

— Mason Cooley

Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously.

— Bertrand Russell

“Some kind of philosophy undergirds every movie, commercial, lecture, or book. Everything we take into our minds is trying to teach us something about…

— Jon Morrison

“A man breaking his journey between one place and another at a third place of no name, character, population or significance, sees a unicorn…

— Tom Stoppard

“You might consider how to escape from a cage must surely require, foremost, awareness of the fact of the cage.”

— David Foster Wallace

As a kid you learn that there are thinkers and there are philosophers and there are theologian, and I'd hear little bits of the…

— Will Oldham

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others

— Virginia Woolf

“The flies were teaching an advanced seminar in philosophy as they crawled up the crack of my ass”

— Richard Brautigan

I think, in some ways, that is the balm of stories, of fables, of tales: it's the way we're wired. We have always needed…

— Debra Granik