Demetri Martin Quotes

The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.

Something there is that does not love a wall.

The counter is a barrier.

Nobody intends to put up a wall!

All that hoops are good for is to clean dirty shoes and keep fellows at a distance.

Between me and life is a faint glass. No matter how sharply I see and understand life, I cannot touch it.

God is the color of water. Water doesn't have a color.

Windows work two ways, mirrors one way. You never walk through mirrors or swim through windows.

Absence becomes the greatest Presence.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.

How fine is the mesh of death. You can almost see through it.

There are no unlockable doors.

Absence, the highest form of presence.

I can't get through the gate. The gate is narrow.

They hammered on the outer gate and called, but there was at first no answer; and then to their surprise someone blew a horn, and the lights in the windows went out. A voice shouted in the dark: 'Who's that? Be off! You can't come in. Can't you read the notice: No admittance between sundown and sunrise?' 'Of course we can't read the notice in the dark,' Sam shouted back. 'And if hobbits of the Shire are to be kept out in the wet on a night like this, I'll tear down your notice when I find it.

You build a wall to keep something unwanted out … or to hold something precious in.

who is invisible enough to see you

It's my attempt to remain invisible, not distract the reader from the story with obvious writing.

After departure, only invisible things are left, perhaps the life of the world is held together by invisible chains of memory and loss and love. So many things, so many people, depart! And we can only repossess them in our minds.

O my God, how does it happen in this poor world that you are so great and yet nobody finds you, that you call so loudly and yet nobody hears you, that you are so near and yet nobody feels you, that you give yourself to everybody and yet nobody knows your name? Men flee from you and say they cannot find you; they turn their backs and say they cannot see you; they stop their ears and say they cannot hear you.

The wall around the window does not create two worlds.

Someone who does not see a pane of glass is not aware of not seeing it.

Get out of my way; for I won't stop for you.

The way is shut. Then they halted and looked at him and saw that he lived still; but he did not look at them. The way is shut, his voice said again. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut.