Jayson Eleby

“I am still raw.
I say I may be back.
You know what lies are for.

Even in your Zen heaven we shan't meet.

--from "Lesbos", written 18 October 1962”
― Sylvia Plath, Ariel: The Restored Edition

“So everything is necessary. Every least thing. This is the hard lesson. Nothing can be dispensed with. Nothing despised. Because the seams are hid from us, you see. The joinery. The way in which the world is made. We have no way to know what could be taken away. What omitted. We have no way to tell what might stand and what might fall.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing

“Some people will tell you that slow is good – but I’m here to tell you that fast is better. I’ve always believed this, in spite of the trouble it’s caused me. Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba…”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
― Albert Camus