“Fallen. Who tracks our footsteps, I wonder? We who are the forgotten, the discounted and the ignored. When the path is failure, it is never willingly taken. The fallen. Why does my heart weep for them? Not them but us, for most assuredly I am counted among them. Slaves, serfs, nameless peasants and labourers, the blurred faces in the crowd—just a smear on memory, a scuffing of feet down the side passages of history. Can one stop, can one turn and force one’s eyes to pierce the gloom? And see the fallen? Can one ever see the fallen? And if so, what emotion is born in that moment? There were tears on his cheeks, dripping down onto his chafed hands. He knew the answer to that question, knife-sharp and driven deep, and the answer was…recognition.” PhilosophyFallenEriksonMidnight TidesUdinaas Book:Midnight Tides Source: Midnight Tides
“Young people of high school age can actually feel themselves changing. Progress is almost tangible. It's exciting. It stimulates more progress. Nevertheless, growth is not constant and smooth. Erik Erikson quotes an aphorism to describe the formless forming of it. "I ain't what I ought to be. I ain't what I'm going to be, but I'm not what I was.” PeopleFeelsAgeSchoolYoungGrowthProgressOughtHigh SchoolExcitingConstantAphorismNeverthelessSmoothAdolescenceTangibleErikson Author:Stella Chess
“I get to listen to a lot of this music again doing my DJ work on Little Steven's Underground Garage. To hear Van [Morrison] on Them's version of "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue"- what a vocal, and what an arrangement. Also, I get to hear so many records that I missed the first time around - The Chocolate Watchband, Roky Erikson. It's an audio food fest, a total privilege, a second chance.” FirstsLittlesChanceRecordsBabyFirst TimeBluePrivilegeVersionsChocolateArrangementsVansVocalSecond ChanceGarageDjsAudioErikson Author:Andrew Loog Oldham
“There is a wonderful book called "Gandhi's Truth," by Erik Erikson, the psychologist. It is a great book. And I remember reading that and thinking about this connection between what we think in our personal lives and how that manifests itself in our politics. Those are two books, just off the top, that I think are sort of representative of reading that I did at that time. I never get a chance to read anymore.” ThinkingTwoBookRememberReadingChanceWonderfulConnectionsRepresentativesPersonal LifePsychologistGreat BookErikson Author:Barack Obama
“Erik Erikson has commented: Potentially creative men like (Bernard) Shaw build the personal fundament of their work during a self-decreed moratorium, during which they often starve themselves, socially, erotically, and, at last but not least, nutritionally, in order to let the grosser weeds die out, and make way for the growth of their inner garden.” MenWaySelfLastsOrderDiesGrowthCreativeGardenWeedBernard ShawErikson Author:Lewis Hyde
“Steven Erikson is an extraordinary writer. I read Gardens of the Moon with great pleasure. And now that I have read it, I would be hard pressed to decide what I enjoyed more: the richly and ominously magical world of Malaz and Genabackis; the large cast of sympathetically-rendered characters; or the way the story accumulates to a climax that hits like machinegun fire. My advice to anyone who might listen to me is, Treat yourself to Gardens of the Moon. And my entirely selfish advice to Steven Erikson is, write faster.” WorldWayWritingHardCharacterStoriesMightWould BePleasureFireAdviceMoonGardenTreatsExtraordinaryCastsSelfishEnjoyedFasterListen To MeClimaxTreat YourselfErikson Author:Stephen R. Donaldson
“Deep down, Erikson wants profoundly to be respected and admired - and very deep down he wants to be left alone.” WantLeftSolitudeDeep DownVery DeepLeft AloneErikson Author:Stanley Hoffmann