Quotes by Frank Galati

“For years I would turn to James Joyces short story collection, The Dubliners, in the Performance of Fiction course I teach at Northwestern University,”

“Murakamis characters sense the potential liquification and destruction of everything. The aftershocks are psychological, and can be seen in characters who are some distance from the epicenter of the chaos in both time and space. The rifts, the fissures -- and those words are repeated often in the text -- are inside them now: there are separations and openings in their hearts, wounds and cracks in their psyches.”

“I hear this production very much as a kind of chamber music work. And as it happens, Murakami ia a great music lover and even ran a jazz club in Tokyo.”

“Murakami has said that what always fascinates him most are the things he doesnt understand. And his work is filled with people who are in that somewhat inchoate state of being on the threshold of knowing, but not quite knowing -- which can be maddening, but which can also make you giddy.”

“The Pirate Queen”

“the deck of the ship which Grace captains, to the court of Queen Elizabeth I where the two remarkable women once met.”

“They were celebrities, and if anyone thought it was strange that these two women who were so strange were a couple, they didnt say anything.”

“Im sad to sense that she may be evaporating into obscurity, because shes enormously important as a writer and as an influence on other writers and other artists.”

“Gertrude Stein -- as a lesbian, a Jew, an exile (and) a woman -- was someone who was indomitable in her unwillingness to succumb to those marginalized identities.”