Jacob Vander Weit

“Above 26,000 feet, moreover, the line between appropriate zeal and reckless summit fever becomes grievously thin. Thus the slopes of Everest are littered with corpses.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air

“People who assure you that you can only gain security at the price of liberty usually want to deny you both.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

“A patriot has universal values, standards by which he judges his nation, always wishing it well—and wishing that it would do better.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

“The first rule of science, Captain, is to doubt appearances and to seek substances in their stead.”
― Esi Edugyan, Washington Black