'I have always loved marijuana. It has been a source of joy and comfort to me for many years. And I still think of it as a basic staple of life, along with beer and ice and grapefruits - and millions of Americans agree with me.'

~ Hunter S. Thompson

'A writer must be as objective as a chemist; he must abandon the subjective line; he must know that dungheaps play a very respectable part in a landscape, & that evil passions are as inherent in life as good ones.'

--Anton Chekhov

“We work too hard. We try too hard. Don’t try. Don’t work. It’s there. It’s been looking right at us, aching to kick out of the closed womb.

There’s been too much direction. It’s all free, we needn’t be told. Classes? Classes are for asses.

Writing a poem is as easy as…

“The teaching of poetry requires fanaticism…

I’ll deliver you, dear doves, out of the rational, into the realm of pure song.”

— Theodore Roethke

'In evolutionary prehistory, consciousness emerged as a side effect of language. Today it is a by-product of the media.'

~ John Gray

We are lived by powers
we pretend to
understand.

-- W.H. Auden

“We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.”

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

'Mondays are meshed with Tuesdays
and the whole week with the whole year.
Time cannot be cut
with your exhausted scissors,
and all the names of the day
are washed out by the waters of night...

When I lived amongst the roots
they pleased me more than flowers did,
and when I spoke…

“It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.“

—Bertrand Russell

“Man’s condition is tragic... For animals, life is all there is; for man, life is an irreversible question mark, for man has never found, nor will ever find, any answers. Life not only has no meaning; it can never have one.”

~ Emil Cioran

“Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.”

― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The business of philosophy is to teach man to live in uncertainty... not to reassure him, but to upset him.”

― Lev Shestov

You can't live in this world
but there's nowhere
else to go.

~ Jack Kerouac

'...the essence of normality is the refusal of reality.'

--Ernest Becker

The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

'For centuries, knowledge has been pursued as a defense against truth.'

—Jacques Lacan