John Zorn Quotes

I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.

Even though I write about the human race, the further away from them, the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful.

From whatever you wish to know and measure you must take your leave, at least for a time. Only when you have left the town can yousee how high its towers rise above the houses.

I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I've always felt that I wasn't a member of any particular group.

I like the condition of being an outsider, just passing through.

I have spent a lot of years on the outside looking in.

I lived in a state of rage from 12 to 20. Until college, I was beyond an outsider. I was a voyeur of life.

If you feel like an outsider, you tend to observe things a lot more.

I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.

A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.

I'm in nobody's circle, I've always been an outsider.

I've been out on the periphery.

I was always an outsider, always standing outside, observing and trying to figure things out. Which is exactly what you need to do as a writer, I suppose.

If you don't belong somewhere, that outsider status you have gives you perspective. Of course, another word for outsider is 'exile,' and that's not fun at all.

I do feel like a loner but I think it's because I look at things differently than other people.

Every writer is an outsider.

I'm amongst you all, but I'm not one of you all.

I've always been on the periphery.

I guess I've always been something of an outsider.

I'm an outsider, I guess.

It's good to be an outsider.

My natural state is an outsider, and no matter what group I'm in or where I am, I've always felt like I'm outside the group, and I've always been analyzing the group.

She was also, by the standards of other people, lost. She would not see it like that. She knew where she was, it was just that everywhere else didn't.

When K. looked at the castle, often it seemed to him as if he were observing someone who sat quietly there in front of him gazing, not lost in thought and so oblivious of everything, but free and untroubled, as if he were alone with nobody to observe him, and yet must notice that he was observed, and all the same remained with his calm not even slightly disturbed; and really - one did not know whether it was cause or effect - the gaze of the observer could not remain concentrated there, but slid away.

Yes, it is better to look from the window than not to look at all, but to look through the window cannot be compared to the windowless sky.