Jonathan

“While you can't control your experiences, you can control your explanations.”
― Martin E.P. Seligman, Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

“The violence of language consists in its effort to capture the ineffable and, hence, to destroy it, to seize hold of that which must remain elusive for language to operate as a living thing.”
― Judith Butler, Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative

“She was one of those women whose features are not perfect and who in their moments of dimness may not seem even pretty, but who, excited by the blood or the spirit, become almost supernaturally beautiful.”
― Edmund Wilson

“I can’t begin to tell you the things I discovered while I was looking for something else.”
― Shelby Foote