“Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.”Mark Z. Danielewski book House of LeavesSource: House of Leaves
“Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.”Mark Z. Danielewski book House of LeavesSource: House of Leaves
“Do not wake me from this slumber, but be assured that just as I have wept much, I have also wandered many roads with my thoughts.”Mark Z. Danielewski book House of LeavesSource: House of Leaves
“I do not know anything about Art with a capital A. What I do know about is my art. Because it concerns me. I do not speak for others. So I do not speak for things which profess to speak for others. My art, however, speaks for me. It lights my way.”Mark Z. Danielewski book House of LeavesSource: House of Leaves
“Keep true to the rare music in your heart, to the marvelous and unique form that is and shall always be nothing else but you. Keep to that and you can do no wrong, which I realize is easier said than done.”Mark Z. Danielewski