Jim

“If we believe that love is weakness? And people resent it, because they think it’s an admission of weakness, they draw away from it… and that’s why you kill the thing you love, because it’s your weakness personified. If you kill it, you will kill your weakness before it kills you.”
― William Gaddis, The Recognitions

“It's plain to you that at the time I write this, I'm not dead. But maybe by the time you read it.”
― Denis Johnson, The Largesse of the Sea Maiden

“The rest of us would be all right until the poor learned how to make atom bombs in their basements.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

“She could taste a nuanced ethical understanding of the patent system all over his body.”
― Annalee Newitz, Autonomous