Blake Butler – Quotes

I always want to

I always want to sleep on the third date. Blake Butler

My love is inside

My love is inside me where my fat was. Blake Butler

What if life after death is all based within memory: you die, and you don’t ascend on a bed of clouds to Jesus, but your brain has a terrain that it can use to propel itself further. It’s more of a theoretical afterlife. If that’s true, all of these theoretical afterlives of people could potentially … Read more

It is important not

It is important not to show too many inches at once. Blake Butler

Reality is overrated to

Reality is overrated to me. Everyone spends enough time on the computer, eating, going out to bars. Why do I need to read a book about that? Blake Butler

I think language is

I think language is a system that we have devised to negotiate a series of more amorphous entities. It’s a layer you can use to see where those things exist, but if you don’t have anyone speaking anymore, those things are still there. The things that language stands for do not require humans, and in … Read more

I write all day

I write all day every day, so when I feel unproductive, it magnifies everything else. Blake Butler

I like smartasses, because

I like smartasses, because I can be smartass back and rashy. Blake Butler

I use the word

I use the word god a lot, and I’m not sure if I know what I believe god is. I don’t believe that when we die, that’s it. It’s almost like a logical faith. I logically don’t believe that all this stuff [surrounding us] is generated from dust. But I’m also not like Jesus Christ … Read more

When I was a

When I was a kid my primary goal in life was to find a book that was alive. Not alive in the human sense, but like a thing that would send me to a place not otherwise accessible on Earth. This book should have hidden words encrypted beneath the printed ones, so that if I … Read more