Russell Hoban (left) and me (right) at his home in London, 1999.

"Life is so strange! It is nothing I have ever been able to take for granted, just simply being alive with the world in front of my eyes and looking out through those eyes at the world." — Pilgermann (1983) #SA4QE

I always feel good in museums. I like the high ceilings and the acoustics, the footsteps and the voices, the silence over and under the footsteps and voices and the individual silences of each thing, all of them holding a long-departed Now.

—Russell Hoban, The Bat Tattoo (2002)

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I exist, said the mirror.
What about me? said Kleinzeit.
Not my problem, said the mirror.

—Russell Hoban, Kleinzeit (1974)

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This Sunday, February 4, would have been the 99th birthday of Russell Hoban. Fans around the world will once again be celebrating by sharing favorite quotes from Russ's one-of-a-kind books (like Riddley Walker, Turtle Diary, and The Mouse and His Child), both online and in their local communities, in the annual event known as the #SA4QE.

Find out more about the event and how to participate here: http://russellhoban.org/sa4qe

"In dreams one often sees the house of one's childhood. Years and years have passed, one's own children have grown up and gone out into the world; but in dreams the house of childhood is fresh and strong, the smell of its closets, the creak of its floors, the light through its windows and the shadows of leaves—everything resonates in the sleeping mind. Perhaps tonight one will find the lost toy or see more clearly something only half-glimpsed long ago."

—Russell Hoban #SA4QE

If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.

—Russell Hoban, The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz (1973)

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