Joyce Carol Oates

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.
-Joyce Carol Oates

The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.
-Joyce Carol Oates

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.
-Joyce Carol Oates

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.
-Joyce Carol Oates

Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.
-Joyce Carol Oates