The Lovers, the Dreamers, and Me.
"Now you just dig them in front. They have worries, they're counting the miles, they're thinking about where to sleep tonight, how much money for gas, the weather, how they'll get there-and all the time they'll get there anyway, you see. But they need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won't be at peace unless they can latch on to an established and proven worry"
~Kerouac
"He stretched his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky. 'I know myself,', he cried, 'but that is all.'"
- Amory Blaine in This Side of Paradise
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Jack London
I'm not concerned that you have fallen,
I'm concerned that you arise.
Abraham Lincoln
"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things, of shoes, and ships, and sealing wax.
Of cabbages, and kings, and why the sea is boiling hot.
And whether pigs have wings." - Lewis Carroll
"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." - Winston Churchill
I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.