Zak Cooper

“Folks be funny lak dat. Dey takes the lies dey want and throws away the truths dat scares ’em.”
― Percival Everett, James

“Although it is unjust, he thought. But I will show him what a man can do and what a man endures.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“I know of no better life purpose than to perish attempting the great and impossible. The fact that something seems impossible should not be a reason to not pursue it. That’s exactly what makes it worth pursuing. Where would the courage and greatness be if success was certain and there was no risk. The only true failure is shrinking away from life’s challenges.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Every human heart imagines God in a different way. A way just right for that imaginer.”
― Richard Powers, Playground