Jason Kirkmeyer

“half-respected conventions spread insecurity and incoherence of behavior rather than freedom and frankness.”
― Italo Calvino, Mr. Palomar

“Examine your rules of education; you will find them all topsy-turvy, especially in all that concerns virtue and morals. The only moral lesson which is suited for a child—the most important lesson for every time of life—is this: “Never hurt anybody.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

“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

“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