Jason Bakker

“Oh, I know you. You're soft, like most men. You make up romances about people instead of seeing them as they are.”
― Christopher Isherwood, The Berlin Stories

“The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver.”
― Virginia Woolf

“And what are you, reader, but a Loose-Fish and a Fast-Fish, too?”
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick: or, the White Whale

“A blend of good and bad characterized all humans, and to pretend to sort that out was an insult to human complexity. But at the same time, Sandro understood that people only tended to allow their own contradictions, and not those of others. It was okay to be murky to yourself, to know you weren’t an angel, but other people had to be more cleanly divided into good and bad.”
― Rachel Kushner, The Flamethrowers