Josh Pendergrass

“In shame, I can say quite honestly: If it is really my destiny to be with others in the world, I ought to be a light shining for those others. But I am not. I ought to give myself, just as I am, just as I have become, to them in love. But I do not. In the very act of giving myself, I hold myself back.”
― Ladislaus Boros, Prayer

“As I listened more closely to the joy of her fado, it was apparent, however, that I might have been wrong about Gabriella: her joy seemed a joy made of something deeper, as though love’s raw ingredients, not just the sweet but the star-crossed and bitter, had all blended together and been cooked until tender, until even the final emptiness was a part of the meal.”
― Jim Gauer, Novel Explosives

“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

“The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.”
― Werner Heisenberg