Benjamin

“Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.”
― Thomas Pynchon

“Why should things be easy to understand?”
― Thomas Pynchon

“We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are. Yet the strongest, most authentic motive for deep reading…is the search for a difficult pleasure.”
― Harold Bloom

“You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.”
― Sacha Guitry