Quotes on Categories

It´s a good thing when a man is different from your image of him. Is shows he isn´t a type. If he were, it would be the end of him as a man. But if you can´t place him in a category, it means that at least a part of him is what a human being ought to be. He has risen above himself, he has a grain of immortality.

despite all our desperate, eternal attempts to separate, contain and mend, categories always leak.

Entering a library, I am always stuck by the way in which a certain vision of the world is imposed upon the reader through its categories and its order.