Jess

“Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.”
― José Saramago, Blindness

“To be human is to be in the tense condition of a death-foreseeing, consciously libidinous animal. No other earthly creature suffers such a capacity for thought, such a complexity of envisioned but frustrated possibilities, such a troubling ability to question the tribal and biological imperatives. ”
― John Updike

“In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.”
― Don DeLillo