Geoff Dyer

"The best way to learn was by looking, to become articulate in the language of sight. The eye could learn to look after itself. ."

"Dave was committed to making it a truly memorable weekend in the sense that he would remember nothing whatsoever about it. “It’s all about moderation,” he said, “Everything in moderation. Even moderat…"

"They made two thousand years ago seem like yesterday, and yesterday look like today, just as today would, in time, look like tomorrow. ."

"All we can do is keep applying the creosote, propping ourselves up with health and success, trying to keep the rain and the damp and the rot at bay for a little longer, trying to postpone the moment o…"

"Once you turn forty...the whole world is water off a duck’s back. Once you turn forty you realize that life is there to be wasted. ."

"I was constantly surprised by how much people didn’t know. That’s one of the things about traveling, one of the things you learn: many people in the world, even educated ones, don’t know much, and it …"

"This book is a ripped, by no mean reliable map of some of the landscapes that make up a particular phase of my life. It’s about places where things happened or didn’t happen, places where I stayed and…"

"Paris Review interview with Geoff Dyer"