Jon Hess

“Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being concious of living.”
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud parties -- all these chase away loneliness by making me forget my name's Dave and I live in a one-by-one box of bone no other party can penetrate or know. Fiction, poetry, music, really deep serious sex, and, in various ways, religion -- these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated.”
― David Foster Wallace

“I know logically that I can live without him, but loving him has become such an integral, necessary part of my life; I am not sure I could stop, even if we parted.”
― Anna Bayes, Under His Wings