Grady

“What punishments of God are not gifts. It’s a gift to exist, and with existence comes suffering. There’s no escaping that. But, if you’re grateful for your life, you have to be grateful for all of it.”

“I suppose, in retrospect, I was just trying to find out what the world held that nobody could tell me about until I got there” (Longform)

“Man, sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself”

“For most people, Mr. Kountze, life is like a henhouse ladder—shitty and short.”