Dept Of Speculation Quotes

#1. They used to send each other letters. The return address was always the same: Dept. of Speculation.

Jenny Offill

#2. Dept. of Speculation is gorgeous, funny, a profound and profoundly moving work of art. Jenny Offill is a master of form and feeling, and she gets life on the page in new, startling ways.

Sam Lipsyte

#3. It's not as if I knew answers which I am going to set down in the form of a novel or a memoir or a sermon. It's, rather, I'm going to search myself for what I might have to say in this area.

Frederick Buechner

#4. Which has left me with a healthy respect and fondness for higher education that those of my friends and family who attended universities were cured of long ago.

Neil Gaiman

#5. We know that to wage a nuclear war today, for example, would be a form of suicide; or that to pollute the air or the oceans in order to achieve some short-term benefit would be to destroy the very basis for our survival.

Dalai Lama

#6. I never liked to hear the doorbell ring. None of the people I liked ever turned up that way.

Jenny Offill

#7. No such thing as the world becoming an easy place to save your soul in.

John Keats

#8. I write to close my eyes.

Franz Kafka

#9. I think we place the wrong emphasis upon examples, that we're treading on very weak ground when we set ourselves up as examples for others to become religious. If people are going to look at me for religious guidance, then I think they're looking in the wrong place.

Charles M. Schulz

#10. [Imagination] must be visited constantly, or else it begins to become restless and emit strange bellows at embarrassing moments; ignoring it only makes it grow larger and noisier.

Patricia A. McKillip

#11. Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting and renewing the transnational institutions that were created after World War II.

Warren Christopher