Jerry Chen

“Categorical hatred is the hatred of the mob, which makes cowards brave. And there is nothing more fearful than a religious mob overflowing with righteousness, as at the crucifixion, and before, and since.”
― Wendell Berry, Our Only World: Ten Essays

“It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes.”
― Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood

“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

“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