Ian Liu

“Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I could not become anything; neither good nor bad; neither a scoundrel nor an honest man; neither a hero nor an insect. And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot seriously become anything, that only a fool can become something.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
― haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running