Expansion Quote by Steven Millhauser

“...and then, with the first and last sound I ever uttered—a ghastly ululation that revolted me almost as poignantly as its noxious cause—I beheld…

— The Outsider H. P. Lovecraft

“To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and inner world, not…

— Aldous Huxley

“What a powerful word, future. Of all the abstractions we can articulate to ourselves, of all the concepts we have that other animals do…

— David Levithan

“Like all who are impassioned, I take blissful delight in losing myself, in fully experiencing the thrill of surrender. And so I often write…

— Fernando Pessoa

“mingling with the remains of the plane, equally fragmented, equally absurd, there floated the debris of the soul, broken memories, sloughed-off selves, severed mother…

— Salman Rushdie

“It may, after all, be the bad habit of creative talents to invest themselves in pathological extremes that yield remarkable insights but no durable…

— Theodore Roszak

“I gazed at these marvels in profound silence. Words were utterly wanting to indicate the sensations of wonder I experienced. I seemed, as I…

— Jules Verne

“To conceive the horror of my sensations is, I presume, utterly impossible; yet a curiosity to penetrate the mysteries of these awful regions predominates…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Very suddenly there came back to my soul motion and sound—the tumultuous motion of the heart, and, in my ears, the sound of its…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“In order to have original, uncommon, and perhaps even immortal thoughts, it is enough to estrange oneself so fully from the world of things…

— Arthur Schopenhaur

“I perceived with a sudden novel vividness the extraordinary folly of everything I had ever done.”

— H.G. Wells

“My small torrent of words dissipated into an elaborate sense of expanding and receding. It was my entrance into the radiance of imagination.”

— Patti Smith