Jacob

“Your heartbreak is just another version of the same old story.”
― Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City

“We are here for no purpose, unless we can invent one. Of that I am sure. The human condition in an exploding universe would not have been altered one iota if, rather than live as I have, I had done nothing but carry a rubber ice-cream cone from closet to closet for sixty years.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Jailbird

“What a marvellous invention man is! He can blow on his hands to warm them up, and blow on his soup to cool it down.”
― Georges Perec, Things: A Story of the Sixties / A Man Asleep

“I’m doing badly, I’m doing well; whichever you prefer.”
― Franz Kafka