"Still, hope was like a throng of singers that circled the world both here and there having died and echoed over and over. What is a song but a call from the other side?"
– Fanny Howe, The Needle’s Eye

"The difficulty of translation from a language that doesn’t yet exist is considerable, but there is no need to exaggerate it. The past, after all, can be quite as obscure as the future."
– Ursula K. Le Guin, Always Coming Home

"Did you know that Puritans believed a baby was only conceived during an orgasm? The Puritans had to spend a lot of time on making this happen, on sex, because without more children, there would be no settlement, no city."
– Fanny Howe, The Needle’s Eye

“The mark which has dominated all my work is this longing for life, this sense of exclusion, which doesn't lessen but augments this love of life.”
- Pier Paolo Pasolini

“Theatre is a humble materialist enterprise which seeks to produce riches of the imagination, not the other way around.”
– Charles Ludlam

"The almond tree with its white blossoms teaches him that fruition is a sign of completion, the moment of failure to which everything aspires. The trees have fulfilled their cycle, turn white, click off, and die."
– Fanny Howe, The Needle’s Eye

"I’m just saying I want my land back / & yes I mean all of it / every river every sea & yes / the expense will be your lives"
- George Abraham, GET FUCKED & DROWN

"In the language we made up one night, the word for lover was the same as the word for neatly folded manuscript you don’t look at for a year. There are many manuscripts."
- Bhanu Kapil

"You were losing hope if you weren’t writing, which isn’t the same as things going invisible. You were losing hope, too, if you were writing, but it was a different kind of loss, because there was always something you had more of when you were done writing, even if it was sentences that you hated."
- Renee Gladman, Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge

“...where I am, where many of us probably feel that we are: somewhere where the boundary between places has broken.”
- Renee Gladman, Houses of Ravicka