Frasi di Russell Hoban

“Gli esploratori devono essere pronti a morire dimenticati.”

“Ma quando non fumo sento poco chiaramente che sto vivendo. Non sento come vivo finché non comincio ad uccidere me stesso.”

“Tutto ciò che è trovato si può sempre perdere di nuovo, e niente che è stato trovato è sempre perso ancora.”

“Ho sempre pensato di essere il personaggio centrale della mia storia, ma ora mi accade di desiderare di essere il personaggio minore nella storia di qualcun altro.”

“Solo un numero ridotto di cose che potrebbero accadere accadrà davvero. La differenza in misura e costume non altererà gli eventi. Edipo andò a Tebe, Roger Rabbit nel giardino di McGregor, ma la storia è essenzialmente la stessa: i punti della vita girano intorno al terrore.”

“After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?”

“Who is Alice?" asked mother.
"Alice is somebody that nobody can see," said Frances. "And that is why she does not have a birthday. So I am singing Happy Thursday to her." - Frances the badger”

“There is a tiger in my room,' said Frances.
'Did he bite you?' said Father.
'No,' said Frances.
'Did he scratch you?' said Mother.
'No,' said Frances.
'Then he is a friendly tiger,' said Father. 'He will not hurt you. Go back to sleep.”

“Reality is ungraspable. For convenience we use a limited-reality consensus in which work can be done, transport arranged, and essential services provided. The real reality is something else—only the strangeness of it can be taken in and that's what interests me: the strangeness of human consciousness; the strangeness of life and death; the strangeness of what the living and the dead are to one another; and the strangeness of ideas … that seem to have been with us from long before the stories of them happened. The real reality, the flickering of seen and unseen actualities, the moment under the moment, can't be put into words; the most that a writer can do—and this is only rarely achieved—is to write in such a way that the reader finds himself in a place where the unwordable happens off the page.”