“We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of
a more expansive world.”
– Judith Butler
“All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.”
– Virginia Woolf, Orlando
“Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.”
– Chuck Palahniuk
“Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.”
– William Shakespeare, Hamlet
“There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are
the doors of perception.”
– Aldous Huxley
“And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?”
– Rumi
“Deep experience is never peaceful.”
– Henry James
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T. S. Eliot
“I shouldn’t precisely have chosen madness if there had been any choice, but once such a thing
has taken hold of you, you can’t very well get out of it.”
– Vincent van Gogh
“Thinking of a series of dreams
Where the time and the tempo fly
And there’s no exit in any direction
‘Cept the one that you can’t see with your eyes”
– Bob Dylan, “Series of Dreams”
“The time has come,” the Walrus said,
“To talk of many things:
Of shoes—and ships—and sealing-wax—
Of cabbages—and kings—
And why the sea is boiling hot—
And whether pigs have wings.”
– Lewis Carrol, “The Walrus and The Carpenter”
Student Conference Coordinators
Yuliana Baskina
Aimee Chang
Stephanie Chen
Sonya Egoian
Lydia Etters
Mara Harris
Sarah Hsu
Victoria Kasar
Ryan Kindel
Nithya Kubendran
Jason Lawler
Stephanie Lu
Karissa Masciel
Carrie Moore
Zoe Osherow
Claire Preising
Adrienne Visani
Shuwen Zhang