Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.

I understood what he was doing, that he had spent four years fulfilling the absurd and tedious duty of graduating from college and now he was emancipated from that world of abstraction, false security, parents, and material excess.

There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.

Short form media is reductionist by nature.

I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.

Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.

Although the far territory of the extreme can exert an intoxicating pull on susceptible individuals of all bents, extremism seems to be especially prevalent among those inclined by temperament or upbringing toward religious pursuits. Faith is the very antithesis of reason, injudiciousness a crucial component of spiritual devotion. And when religious fanaticism supplants ratiocination, all bets are suddenly off.