Rivka Galchen Inspirational Quotes (3)

But one day I woke up and heard myself saying, I am a fork being used to eat cereal. I am not a spoon. I am a fork. And I can’t help people eat cereal any longer.

The magnificently humble. The enormously small. The meaningfully ridiculous. Robert Walser's work often reads like a dazzling answer to the question, How immense can modesty be?

I've always thought of my own mind as an unruly parliament, with a feeble leader, with crazy extremist factions.