Josh Pendergrass

“The barbarian either totally mocks or totally worships.
Civilization is a smile that discreetly combines irony and respect.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a una texto implícito: Selección

“The concept of “mental health” in our society is defined largely by the extent to which an individual behaves in accord with the needs of the system and does so without showing signs of stress.”
― Theodore J. Kaczynski, Industrial Society and Its Future

“When Famous Shoes finished his song he noticed that the young white man was asleep. During the day he had not trusted enough, and had worn himself out with pointless scurryings. Perhaps even then the song he had just sung was working in the young man’s dreams; perhaps as he grew older he would learn to trust mysteries and not fear them. Many white men could not trust things unless they could be explained; and yet the most beautiful things, such as the trackless flight of birds, could never be explained.”
― Larry McMurtry, Comanche Moon

“So. What Real Venture Capitalists, entrepreneurs, and lunatics have in common, aside from the fact that they all require medication, is the radical intent, or at least meta-intention, to commit themselves totally to an absolute fiction, and attempt, over time, to make this fiction factual, through what I personally like to think of as 'the poet’s incursions on reality'.”
― Jim Gauer, Novel Explosives