gary weiner

“Wherever you are, the richness and complexity and inexhaustible, unplumbable thereness of the whole rushes in through your eyes and your ears and your nose and across your skin. Every single thing around you is right there and so are you. The teeming world is right there, and all of it is neither good nor bad, it just is.”
― Naomi Alderman, The Future

“the planet, as with a person of difficult character. (Unless the difficulty of character is all on Mr. Palomar’s side: he tries in vain to escape subjectivity by taking refuge among the celestial bodies.)”
― Italo Calvino, Mr. Palomar

“Logistics were already crowding in, making her tired—this is what people like Simon got to avoid, the constant churn of anxieties somehow both punishingly urgent and punishingly boring.”
― Emma Cline, The Guest

“Because the Supreme Court is where the country takes out its dick and tits and decides who’s going to get fucked and who’s getting a taste of mother’s milk. It’s constitutional pornography in there, and what did Justice Stewart once say about obscenity? I know it when I see it.”
― Paul Beatty, The Sellout