Steven

“His conception of God was of an omnipotent being who was a union not of three persons in one God-head, as in Christianity, but of two-a sick fuck and an evil genius.”
― Philip Roth-Nemesis

“Maybe this was the unstated purpose of education, to get young people to see the world through the tired eyes of age: disappointment and exhaustion and defeat masquerading as wisdom.”
― Richard Russo, Chances Are . . .

“As he spoke of their childhood days Judah sat up to press the back of his hand to his mouth and say she was as real to me as hunger or fear and I think I was born with her in my mind.”
― Michael Farris Smith

“What you can’t afford to lose is precisely what the world robs you of. How it knew what you needed the most, just so it could deny you that very thing, was a question for philosophers. Answer it and you’d have the kind of book Tom Ford would’ve considered worth writing: urgent and new and absolutely necessary. To write it, though, you’d have to be on fire.”
― Richard Russo, Chances Are . . .