Jason Kirkmeyer

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

“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

“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

“Dost Thou know that the ages will pass”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov