Jesse Browner Quotes

When I am a good host, I can order the world precisely as I believe it ought to be. It is a world that I have created in my mind and in my own image, and it gladdens me profoundly to see it unfold wit...

When I am a good host, I can order the world precisely as I believe it ought to be. It is a world that I have created in my mind and in my own image, and it gladdens me profoundly to see it unfold wit...

Jesse Browner

Tags: heaven, hospitality, paradise

We are all doomed to seek our own happiness; we can't help ourselves. We are all, the cruel and the gentle alike, condemned to seeking that happiness in the dark. We use our need as the blind use a wa...

Jesse Browner

We are all doomed to seek our own happiness; we can't help ourselves. We are all, the cruel and the gentle alike, condemned to seeking that happiness in the dark. We use our need as the blind use a wa...

Jesse Browner

Tags: happiness

About Author

Jesse Browner (born March 30, 1961) is an American novelist, essayist, and translator. His work has appeared in Nest (magazine), Food & Wine, Gastronomica, New York (magazine), The New York Times Book Review and Poets & Writers. His books have been published in the United States, France, Italy, Poland, Germany and the Netherlands.