Matt Powell

“For example, the ancient Japanese had onna-zumo (women’s wrestling), but as the sports historian Allen Guttmann writes, “The debased motivation for this activity is suggested by the names of the wrestlers: ‘Big Boobs,’ ‘Deep Crevice,’ and ‘Holder of the Balls.”
― Jonathan Gottschall, The Professor in the Cage: Why Men Fight and Why We Like to Watch

“I opened the door of her car and helped her in. Her breast leaned against my shoulder heavily. I moved back. I preferred a less complicated kind of pillow, stuffed with feathers, not memories and frustrations.”
― Ross Macdonald, The Moving Target

“If the experience of the Third Reich teaches us anything, it is that a love of great music, great art and great literature does not provide people with any kind of moral or political immunization against violence, atrocity, or subservience to dictatorship.”
― Richard J. Evans, The Coming of the Third Reich

“We felt there was a creeping tepidness in music, a cloying softness, as if music were only a salve, not an instigator. It’s”
― Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir