Erik Torenberg

“When there’s nothing to do, you do nothing slowly and intently.”
― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

“That’s advanced capitalism for you: The player making the maximum capital investment gets the maximum critical information in order to reap the maximum desired profit with maximum capital efficiency—and nobody bats an eye.”
― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

“Only once, and only because I was very young, could I have merged my identity with another person’s, and singularities like this are where you find eternity.”
― Jonathan Franzen

“California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension; in which the mind is troubled by some buried but ineradicable suspicion that things better work here, because here, beneath the immense bleached sky,is where we run out of continent.”
― Joan Didion