Aaron Schoen

“In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro.

(Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.)”
― Thomas a Kempis

“The only way to survive such shitty times, if you ask me, is to write and read big, fat books, you know? And I’m writing now another book on Hegelian dialectics, subjectivity, ontology, quantum physics and so on. That’s the only way to survive. Like Lenin. I will use his example. You know what Lenin did, in 1915, when World War I exploded? He went to Switzerland and started to read Hegel.”
― Slavoj Žižek

“[T]he great, irreplaceable potentiality of fiction is that it makes possible the imagining of possibilities.”
― Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

“Cousinhood is a dangerous neighborhood.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War And Peace