"No matter how much I wanted all those things that I needed money to buy, there was some devilish current pushing me off in another direction -- toward anarchy and poverty and craziness. That maddening delusion that a man can lead a decent life without hiring himself out as a Judas Goat."
(Hunter S. Thompson)

"If, after obtaining Buddhahood, anyone in my land gets tossed in jail on a vagrancy rap, may I
not attain highest perfect enlightenment."
(Gary Snyder)

"I see men assassinated around me every day. I walk through rooms of the dead, streets of the dead, cities of the dead; men without eyes, men without voices; men with manufactured feelings and standard reactions; men with newspaper brains, television souls and high school ideas."
(Charles Bukowski)

"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)