Jason Kirkmeyer

“Occasionally we grew so tired and breathless with fighting them that we had to desist,—and immediately the donkey would come down to a deliberate walk. This, with the fatigue, and the sun, would put a man asleep; and soon as the man was asleep, the donkey would lie down. My donkey shall never see his boyhood’s home again. He has lain down once too often. He must die.”
― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad

“One can never be sure of saving one’s soul by writing. One may go on writing with a soul already lost.”
― Italo Calvino, The Nonexistent Knight

“Nick Cave, when confronted with a ChatGPT-generated version of a Nick Cave song, described the phenomenon as “replication as travesty … a grotesque mockery of what it is to be human.”
― Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World

“and I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder”
― Lawrence Ferlinghetti, A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems