Jerrod Langston

“and he also told me that I should rethink submitting my thesis.
He read your thesis.
He read three different drafts of it, actually.
Did he understand it?
Pretty much. He understood what was wrong with it.
And that was?
That nobody could understand it.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris

“No one stopped to consider what the degradation might be doing to my psyche. At night Connie would sing me to sleep and tell me not to worry, because the real me was deep inside and safe. I love her dearly but in retrospect she had no idea what she was talking about.”
― George Saunders, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline

“you can't keep the thoughts from popping in there. The thing they try to teach you is just to Let Them Go, the thoughts. Let them come as they will, but do not Entertain them.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“Boo, I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away.'
'But then how do you know they're monsters, then?'
'That's the monstrosity right there, Boo. I'm starting to think.'
'Golly Ned.'
'That they walk among us. Teach our children. Inscrutable. Brass-faced.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest