"I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn't know who I was — I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I'd never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs, and all the sad sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn't know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds. I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost."
(Jack Kerouac)

"What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust."
(Salvador Dali)

"What does it matter? Like the ants that have nothing to do but dig all day, I have nothing to do but do what I want and be kind and remain nevertheless uninfluenced by imaginary judgements."
(Jack Kerouac)

"Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life."
(Jack Karouac)

   "Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously."

(Hunter S. Thompson)

"'Crazy' is a term of art; 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble."
(Hunter S. Thompson)

"I am an addictive personality, they say. A natural slave to passion - and many doctors have warned me against it. I am a High-Risk patient."
(Hunter S. Thompson)