Philip Webre

“As I said, one of my favorite questions to ask an era is: What portion of the population can be murdered by a different portion and have the murderer suffer no meaningful consequences?”
― Ada Palmer, Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age

“In 2014, Mexican authorities seized 15,397 firearms, ranging from machine guns to pistols, and submitted them to the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) for tracing. The agency found that 11,061 of them—71 percent—originated in the United States.”
― Suketu Mehta, This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto

“Stories with definitive endings don’t necessarily reflect a belief that the world makes sense, but they do reflect a belief in the power of art to make sense of it. What one finds in Jewish storytelling, though, is something really different: a kind of realism that comes from humility, from the knowledge that one cannot be true to the human experience while pretending to make sense of the world.”
― Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

“You do a lot of math when you’re broke.”
― Cat Bohannon, Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution