Mark Z. Danielewski Quotes

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.

Maybe there's a whole other universe where a square moon rises in the sky, and the stars laugh in cold voices, and some of the triangles have four sides, and some have five, and some have five raised to the fifth power of sides. In this universe there might grow roses which sing. Everything leads to everything.

An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object.

Nonexistence. The society of the nonexistent. In the street yesterday a nonexistent person trod on my foot with his nonexistent foot.

Absurd, irreducible; nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root].

I am probably in the sky, flying with the fish, or maybe in the ocean, swimming with the pigeons. See, my world is different.

This highway leads to the shadowy tip of reality: you're on a through route to the land of the different, the bizarre, the unexplainable...Go as far as you like on this road. Its limits are only those of mind itself. Ladies and Gentlemen, you're entering the wondrous dimension of imagination. . . Next stop The Twilight Zone.

The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.

I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia.

Faith works miracles. At least it allows time for them.

The mystery lies in the irrationality by which you make appearance - if it is not irrational, you make illustration.

Transcendence is something between a metaphor and a miracle.

The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in a many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin,' thought Alice 'but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing i ever saw in my life!

It's not possible to search for God using the methods of a detective... There is no way. You can only wait till God's axe severs your roots: then you will understand that you are here only through a miracle, and you will remain fixed forever in wonderment and equilibrium.

Each time I see the Upside-Down Man Standing in the water, I look at him and start to laugh, Although I shouldn't oughtter. For maybe in another world Another time Another town, Maybe HE is right side up And I am upside down

We are alive within mystery, by miracle... We have more than we can know. We know more than we can say.

Existence in itself, taken at its least miraculous, is a miracle.

Sometimes to walk in shaded parts of Manhattan is to be inserted into a Magritte: the street is night while the sky is day.

I do believe I begin to grasp the nature of miracles! For would it be a miracle, if there was any reason for it? Miracles have nothing to do with reason. Miracles contradict reason, they strike clean across mere human deserts, and deliver and save where they will. If they made sense, they would not be miracles.

What has roots as nobody sees, Is taller than trees Up, up it goes, And yet never grows? A mountain.

There’s a magic in the distance, where the sea-line meets the sky.

I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will make sense only in reverse.