"We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state and our educational system. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us."
(Charles Bukowski)

"Van Gogh writing his brother for paints
Hemingway testing his shotgun
Celine going broke as a doctor of medicine
the impossibility of being human
Shakespeare a plagiarist
Beethoven with a horn stuck into his head against deafness
the impossibility the impossibility
Nietzsche gone totally mad
the impossibility of being human
all too human
this breathing
in and out
out and in
these punks
these cowards
these champions
these mad dogs of glory
moving this little bit of light toward us
impossibly."
(Charles Bukowski)

"What passed for society was a loud, giddy whirl of thieves and pretentious hustlers, a dull sideshow full of quacks and clowns and philistines with gimp mentalities."
(Hunter S Thompson)

"Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry."
(Jack Kerouac)

"Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived, or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?"
(Hunter S Thompson)

"The road must eventually lead to the whole world. Ain't nowhere else it can go - right?"
(Jack Kerouac)

"So in America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the long, long skies over New Jersey and sense all that raw land that rolls in one unbelievable huge bulge over to the West Coast, and all that road going, all the people dreaming in the immensity of it, and in Iowa I know by now the children must be crying in the land where they let the children cry, and tonight the stars'll be out, and don't you know that God is Pooh Bear? The evening star must be drooping and shedding her sparkler dims on the prairie, which is just before the coming of complete night that blesses the earth, darkens all rivers, cups the peaks and folds the final shore in, and nobody, nobody knows what's going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old."
(Jack Kerouac)

"Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why."
(Hunter S. Thompson)

Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV.
And you think you're so clever and classless and free.
But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see.
A working class hero is something to be.
A working class hero is something to be.
(John Lennon)

"Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside."
(William S. Burroughs)

"All life is but a skull-bone and a rack of ribs through which we keep passing food & fuel - just so's we can burn so furious beautiful."
(Jack Kerouac)

"People are all alike, but not at all alike, but in the final analysis, all alike."
(Ajahn Mun)

"They say that "he who flies highest, falls farthest" — and who am I to argue? But we can't forget that "he who doesn't flap his wings, never flies at all". And with that, I'll stop trying to convince myself that I can't fail; how dull the whole thing would be if that were true."
(Hunter S Thompson)

The Dhamma is in everyone. Whether or not you realize it, it's there. Whether or not you study it, it's there. It's simply a matter of whether you know how to decipher it.
(Ajahn Lee)

'Time is all we have, and don’t.'
(Atticus)

“No matter how much you think, you won’t know. Only when you stop thinking will you know. But still, you have to depend on thinking so as to know.”
(Ajahn Dune)

I let her go
Because I knew she could do better
And now she's gone
I wonder
If I should've
Just been better.
(Atticus)

Don't ask her to be a rock
for you to lean upon,
instead build her wings
and point her to the sky
and she will teach you both to fly.
(Atticus)

"I don't believe in magic."
The young boy said.
The old man smiled.
"You will when you see her."
(Atticus)

"When you’ve understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can’t understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom."
(Jack Kerouac)

"There’s too much risk in loving,"
the young boy said,
"No,"
said the old man,
"There’s too much risk in not."
(Atticus)

"Reading dreams. That's what started her walking down the road. Every day she'd walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on walking."
(Truman Capote)

Watch carefully
the magic that occurs
when you give a person
enough comfort
to just be themselves.
(Atticus)

Everything
We
Love
Is
Well
Arranged
Dust.
(Atticus)

"No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone."
(Friedrich Nietzsche)