"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)

"The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind."
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

"Three-fourths of philosophy and literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering."
(Gary Snyder)

"The little flowers grew everywhere around the rocks, and no one had asked them to grow, or me to grow."
(Jack Kerouac)