Rain is used as white noise when God is disgusted by too much prayer, when the sky is stuffed to bursting with the noise of what people need.

- Ben Marcus

To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no stories to circle them, can die without…

- Ben Marcus

Without sound, celebration and grief look nearly the same.

- Ben Marcus

It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability.

- Ben Marcus

Teaching is all armchair. I learn about writing by writing and thinking about what I've written and throwing it away.

- Ben Marcus

In certain strains of Judaism, there's a profound passion for the ineffable. Contemplation of God is meant to be forever elusive, because, you know, …

- Ben Marcus

In some sense, prose fiction is just a way of unlocking a space. If I can unlock the space, it comes out and it's vivid, I find that I care about it,…

- Ben Marcus

I'm attracted to how fraught the parent-child relationship is, swerving so easily between love and hostility, with almost no plausible way to end, un…

- Ben Marcus

I'm interested in the hope we invest in science, and the disappointment we can feel when science flattens, or 'explains,' the larger mysteries of rel…

- Ben Marcus