Tom

“There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.”
― John Darnielle, Wolf in White Van

“I am coming to see that the sensation of the worst nightmares, a sensation that can be felt asleep or awake, is identical to those worst dreams' form itself: the sudden intra-dream realization that the nightmares' very essence and center has been with you all along, even awake: it's just been... overlooked.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“Erinnerungen, die leuchten wie ein Betrunkener oder Kranker im Regen.”
― Roberto Bolaño, The Savage Detectives

“Parents don't have the luxury of being reasonable, not any more than a religious person does. What can make religious people and parents so utterly insufferable is also what makes religion and Parenthood so utterly beautiful: the All or nothing wager. The Faith.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Here I Am