Ethan

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.”
― John Darnielle, Wolf in White Van

“The human species was given dominion over the earth and took the opportunity to exterminate other species and warm the atmosphere and generally ruin things in its own image, but it paid this price for its privileges: that the finite and specific animal body of this species contained a brain capable of conceiving the infinite and wishing to be infinite itself.”
― Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

“Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.”
― James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk