Matthew Aschenbrenner

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

“Would you go into isolation, my brother? would you seek the way to
yourself? Tarry yet a little and listen to me.

"He who seeks may easily get lost himself. All isolation is wrong": so
say the herd. And long did you belong to the herd.

The voice of the herd will still echo in you. And when you say, "I have
no longer a conscience in common with you," then will it be a plaint and
a pain.

Behold, that pain itself did the same conscience produce; and the last
gleam of that conscience still glows on your affliction.

But you would go the way of your affliction, which is the way to yourself? Then show me your authority and your strength to do so!

Are you a new strength and a new authority? A first motion? A self-rolling wheel? Can you also compel stars to revolve around you?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None