Leslie Wexler

“Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.”
― Jonathan Swift

“I wish him episodes of glorious, sun-washed tedium and a loss of innocence he will contemplate for the rest of his life.”
― Julie Schumacher, Dear Committee Members

“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“In the meantime, I hope you will not consign her to a windowless environment populated entirely by unsocialized clones who long ago abandoned the reading and discussion of literature in favor of creating ever more restrictive and meaningless ways in which humans are intended to make themselves known to one another.”
― Julie Schumacher, Dear Committee Members