Jonathan

“Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”
― Ezra Pound

“Every weakness contains within itself a strength.”
― Shusaku Endo

“Where we are from... [s]tories are factual. If a farmer is declared a music virtuoso by the state, everyone had better start calling him maestro. And secretly, he'd be wise to start practicing the piano. For us, the story is more important than the person. If a man and his story are in conflict, it is the man who must change.”
― Adam Johnson, The Orphan Master's Son

“Death cannot be experienced either by the dead or the living.”
― William T. Vollmann, Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means – A Philosophical Framework: The Moral Calculus for War and Conflict