Jess

“How much easier it would be if when you played them slowly in reverse the lyrics really did, as some hysterical parents feared, reveal satanic messages; if there were a backmasked secret order, however dark, instead of rage at emptiness.”
― Ben Lerner, The Topeka School

“Objecting to the diagnosis of penis envy was a sure sign of penis envy.”
― Ben Lerner, The Topeka School

“Love is a tree with branches in forever with roots in eternity and a trunk nowhere at all”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“Human history was the story of increasingly disoriented hunger.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory