Ethan Miller

“And then but so what’s the difference between tennis and suicide, life and death, the game and its own end?”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“U.S. of modern A. where the State is not a team or a code, but a sort of sloppy intersection of desires and fears, where the only public consensus a boy must surrender to is the acknowledged primacy of straight-line pursuing this flat and short-sighted idea of personal happiness: ‘The happy pleasure of the person alone, yes?”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“We are perilously close to losing an economy and a democracy that are meant to work for everyone and to replacing them with an economy and a government that will exist mainly for a few wealthy and powerful people.”
― Robert B. Reich, Beyond Outrage (Expanded Edition): What has gone wrong with our economy and our democracy, and how to fix it

“SUCCESSFUL COMMUNITY WELCOMES AND rewards more than one kind of person. Diverse residents support themselves and enrich one another’s lives with different talents. So, too, over a season’s communal work at a student farm, a group bonds to become a family.”
― Jeremy N. Smith, The Urban Garden: How One Community Turned Idle Land into a Garden City and How You Can, Too