Zone Distillation

Famous quotes containing the words zone and/or distillation:

“The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.”
—Italo Calvino (1923–1985)

“In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It’s the drowning out of false voices.”
—Don Delillo (b. 1926)