Logan

“We were all—every kid in the crowd and every person on stage—chasing the same thing: a feeling of rebellion, of possibility, of promise, of chaos. We had to find it so we could figure out how to be ourselves, and we couldn’t locate it without each other.”
― Lizzy Goodman, Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011

“I’m just brutally fuckin’ honest about goin’ ahead and doin’ what I have to do. But it’s not that I can’t sense people’s feelings. People are hurt.

Whenever you move forward, you leave a fuckin’ wake.

—Yeah, and your wake’s a BIG one.
It’s a big wake. A lotta destruction behind me.

—Are you very good at saying goodbye to people?

No. I don’t like long goodbyes.

—HA HA HA. Sometimes you don’t like ANY goodbye at all!

Well … some goodbyes are more subtle than others. Sometimes only one of the people involved knows that it’s a goodbye. But that’s because—

—YEAH?????

I guess it’s because I’m chickenshit and I don’t want to hurt people. And that’s a weakness of mine. I could be more honest about certain things. See, these people that say I’m so honest—I’m not that honest.”
― Jimmy McDonough, Shakey: Neil Young's Biography

“Civilization is not about more capital accumulation per se; rather, it is about what capital accumulation allows humans to achieve, the flourishing and freedom to seek higher meaning in life when their base needs are met and most pressing dangers averted.”
― Saifedean Ammous, The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking

“When my father was sixty-five and I was twenty-seven, I said to him, thinking him a very old man, that it must have been fun for him to be an architect. He replied unexpectedly that it had been no fun at all, since architecture had everything to do with accounting and nothing to do with art.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Fates Worse Than Death: An Autobiographical Collage