Josh

“Without fully realizing it, I began writing my first book. It was neither a vocation nor a particular gift that pushed me to write, but quite simply the enigma posed by a man I had no chance of finding again, and by all those questions that would never have an answer.”
― Patrick Modiano, Suspended Sentences: Three Novellas

“But these being glove-gray country mice that have skittered in from a Tom-and-Jerry cartoon, I root for their innocence and ingenuity. I am even mouse-proud. My mice arc smarter than your mice! After the stunt with the Skippy peanut butter jar, I felt as if they had gotten 8oos on their SATs. These guys arc good.”
― Lance Morrow, Second Drafts of History: Essays

“And then Ehrlich’s climax: “Let there be light. Let there be honesty. Let there be no running from nonexistent destroyers of morals. Let there be honest understanding. In the end the four-letter words will not appear draped in glaring headlights, but will be submerged in the decentralization of small thinking in small minds.”
― Ronald K.L. Collins, Mania: The Story of the Outraged and Outrageous Lives That Launched a Cultural Revolution

“Special tours were arranged for various constituencies. On one occasion a tour for the working class was advertised, but only one workman showed up, along with a mysterious stranger of another class who bought half the paintings on display, including works by Picasso, Kokoschka, and Janco.”
― Jed Rasula, Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century