"I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion."
— Jack Kerouac

"Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt."
— Kurt Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse-Five)

"Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly."
— Neil Gaiman (The Sandman Vol. 6: Fables and Reflections)

"Tell them about how you're never really a whole person if you remain silent, because there's always that one little piece inside you that wants to be spoken out, and if you keep ignoring it, it gets madder and madder and hotter and hotter, and if you don't speak it out one day it will just up and punch you in the mouth from the inside."
— Audre Lorde

"It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything. "
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)

"Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does."
— Jonathan Safran Foer

"At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club: A Novel)

"I cannot shut you out the way I shut the others out, so maybe I can destroy you. Must destroy you?"
— Audre Lorde (Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches)

"And so it goes..."
— Kurt Vonnegut

"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring."
— Chuck Palahniuk

"My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can."
— Frank Zappa

"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. -- G.K. Chesterton"
— Neil Gaiman (Coraline)

"The things you own end up owning you."
— Chuck Palahniuk

"[...] 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)

"He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn't occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once."
— Neil Gaiman (Neverwhere: A Novel)

"Your silence will not protect you."
— Audre Lorde

"Because the machine will try to grind you into dust anyway, whether or not we speak."
— Audre Lorde (Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches)

"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library."
— Frank Zappa

"If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it walls, and we will furnish it with soft, red interiors, from the inside out, and give it a knocker that resonates like a diamond falling to a jeweller's felt so that we should never hear it. Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does."
— Jonathan Safran Foer (Everything is Illuminated: A Novel)

"Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."
— J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

"You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any. You may think there is, but once you get there, when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write 'Fuck you' right under your nose."
— J.D. Salinger

"People never notice anything"
— J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."
— Hunter S. Thompson

"We can't stop here, this is bat country!"
— Hunter S. Thompson

"We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.
Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can."
— Hunter S. Thompson (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream)

"I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes."
— Hunter S. Thompson

"I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars."
— Abbie Hoffman

""Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.""
— Abbie Hoffman

"Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a
commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps."
— Abbie Hoffman (Steal This Book)

"Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they'll tell you it's to get an education. The truth of it is, they are there to get the degree so that they can get ahead in the rat race. Too many college radicals are two-timing punks. The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it."
— Abbie Hoffman (Steal This Book)

"To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral."
— Abbie Hoffman (Steal This Book)

"Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent."
— Abbie Hoffman (Steal This Book)

"and when we speak we are afraid
our words will not be heard
nor welcomed
but when we are silent
we are still afraid

So it is better to speak"
— Audre Lorde

"The truth was obscure,
Too profound and too pure,
To live it you had to explode"
— Bob Dylan

"I didn't come out of a cereal box. "
— Bob Dylan

"behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain."
— Bob Dylan

"Gotta head full of ideas that are driving me insane..."
— Bob Dylan

"Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead. "
— Charles Bukowski