I've always thought of my own mind as an unruly parliament, with a feeble leader, with crazy extremist factions.

- Rivka Galchen

The magnificently humble. The enormously small. The meaningfully ridiculous. Robert Walser's work often reads like a dazzling answer to the question,…

- Rivka Galchen

The writing process for a short story feels more like field geology, where you keep turning the thing over and over, noting its qualities in detail, …

- Rivka Galchen

Physics advances by accepting absurdities. Its history is one of unbelievable ideas proving to be true.

- Rivka Galchen

We need to develop a better descriptive vocabulary for lying, a taxonomy, a way to distinguish intentional lies from unintentional ones, and a way to…

- Rivka Galchen

But one day I woke up and heard myself saying, I am a fork being used to eat cereal. I am not a spoon. I am a fork. And I can’t help people eat cerea…

- Rivka Galchen