Zev Mishell

“We are all one question and the best answer seems to be love--a connection between things.”
― Mary Ruefle, Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures

“Today, the tempter does not lead the creative man to a high mountain to show him all the kingdoms and splendor of the world, as Satan did to Jesus. Instead, he tempts him through infinity—to lose himself in the unessential, to roam about in the great confusion in which all human clarity and definiteness has ceased. Thus, the threat of infinity that Buber experienced as a fourteen-year-old now takes on new form—the form of formlessness, of the whirl of unmastered possibilities that every young person who goes out into the world experiences, but that Buber himself experienced to an overwhelming degree.”
― Maurice S. Friedman, Encounter on the Narrow Ridge: A Life of Martin Buber

“You can’t ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“I will speak that I may find relief”; for there is a redemptive quality for an agitated mind in the spoken word, and a tormented soul finds peace in confessing.”
― Joseph B. Soloveitchik, The Lonely Man of Faith