Jake

“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.”
― Albert Camus

“Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

“Wolves cull themselves, man. What other creature could? And is the race of man not more predacious yet?”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost