Jess

“A point in suffering when pain over-rules everything; I am pain, until it becomes an inanimate object, I look down, wondering when it belonged. Yet each time in its midst it’s the worst that’s ever happened, nothing goes beyond this, therefore you become optimistic, life is worth living again, perhaps despair’s only saving grace, until the next time, and you fall even lower—the abyss eternal!”
― Ann Quin, Berg

“Think of me as your mother. At least until I'm elected god, on the other hand.”
― Harlan Ellison, Harlan Ellisons Watching

“I feel we should immerse ourselves in the most destructive element, ourselves, and swim.”
― J.G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition