Jed

“Be on guard. The road widens, and many of the detours are seductive.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“I’d much rather watch people do what they do than talk to them across a desk.”
― John McPhee, Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process

“Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.” —Pierre-Marc-Gaston”
― Timothy Ferriss, Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers

“I was leaving the South
to fling myself into the unknown . . .
I was taking a part of the South
to transplant in alien soil,
to see if it could grow differently,
if it could drink of new and cool rains,
bend in strange winds,
respond to the warmth of other suns
and, perhaps, to bloom”
― Richard Wright