Jerry Chen

“The core accounting equation A = L + E can be dissolved and reshuffled into everything from E = A - L to beyond.”
― David Foster Wallace, The Pale King

“Man is a strange being. He always has a feeling somewhere in his heart that whatever the danger he will pull through. It's just like when on a rainy day you imagine the faint rays of the sun shining on a distant hill.”
― Shūsaku Endō, Silence

“I walked a mile with Pleasure;
She chatted all the way;
But left me none the wiser
For all she had to say.

I walked a mile with Sorrow;
And ne’er a word said she;
But, oh! The things I learned from her,
When Sorrow walked with me.”
― Robert Browning Hamilton

“Now that all hope is gone, a deep relief has taken its place, and I allow myself to enjoy it before the despair sets in.”
― Norm Macdonald, Based on a True Story