Taylor Rowell

“Years ago, it had occurred to me that Darwin and Nietzsche agreed on one thing: the defining characteristic of the organism is striving.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“America seems filled with violent people who like causing people pain but hate when those people tell them that pain hurts”
― Kiese Laymon, Heavy

“Although we regularly stigmatize other societies as rogue states, we ourselves have become the largest rogue state of all. We honor no treaties. We spurn international courts. We strike unilaterally wherever we choose. We give orders to the United Nations but do not pay our dues. We complain of terrorism, yet our empire is now the greatest terrorist of all. We bomb, invade, subvert other states.”
― Gore Vidal

“I think there should be a constitutional amendment making it impossible for anyone to be president who believes in an afterlife.”
― Gore Vidal