Brian Kress

“The Four Questions?” “As put forth by Mettleheim: How did this happen? How could this happen? Is it exceptional? How will it be avoided in the future?”
― Colson Whitehead, The Intuitionist

“At ninety, everything is air and the difference between you and the medium of your passage is disintegrating with every increment of the ascension.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Intuitionist

“An elevator doesn’t exist without its freight. If there’s no one to get on, the elevator remains in quiescence. The elevator and the passenger need each other.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Intuitionist

“I only feel close to people who arouse my energy, who make enormous demands of me, who are capable of enriching me with experience, pain, people who do not doubt my courage, or my toughness. People who do not believe me naive or innocent, but who challenge my keenest wisdom, who have the courage to treat me like a woman in spite of the fact that they are aware of my vulnerability.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934