"Where's the sense in stealing, without the grace to be it?"
— Ian McCulloch, Echo & The Bunnymen

"It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane."
— Philip K. Dick

"A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. A psychotic is a guy who's just found out what's going on."
— William S. Burroughs

"The street finds its own uses for things."
— William Gibson

"I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use -- silence, exile, and cunning."
— James Joyce (A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man)

"“You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism."
— Warren Ellis

""Writer's block? I've heard of this. This is when a writer cannot write, yes? Then that person isn't a writer anymore. I'm sorry, but the job is getting up in the fucking morning and writing for a living.""
— Warren Ellis

"Provided we can escape from the museums we carry around inside us, provided we can stop selling ourselves tickets to the galleries in our own skulls, we can begin to contemplate an art which re-creates the goal of the sorcerer: changing the structure of reality by the manipulation of living symbols ... Art tells gorgeous lies that come true."
— Hakim Bey (T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone)

"If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution."
— Emma Goldman

"Only nothing is impossible."
— Grant Morrison

"We're the new power, come to replace the old. Cameras in the head, children with microchips, spin doctors rewriting reality as it happens. "
— Grant Morrison

""Abandon the 'I', because it's a lie." "
— Grant Morrison

"Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music-the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself."
— Henry Miller

"A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us."
— Franz Kafka

"[...] the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!' What did they call such young people in Goethe's Germany?"
— Jack Kerouac (On the Road)

"Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out of your mouth."
— Anne Sexton

"The word is a prism through which the two beams shot from heart and head are refracted into the colours of the Universe."
— Paul Grimsley

"shave you mind with occam's razor everyday"
— Paul Grimsley

"I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen."
— J.G. Ballard

"The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you."
— David Foster Wallace