"All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name.

Remembered line from a long-
forgotten poem"
— Hunter S. Thompson (Hell's Angels)

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

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

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."
— Albert Camus

"I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God."
— Albert Camus (L'etranger)

"I had the sensation that I might always be running like this, that I would always have to run, and that I would always be able to run."
— Dave Eggers (What Is the What)

"Human beings do not like being pushed about by gods. They may seem to, on the surface, but somewhere on the inside, underneath it all, they sense it, and they resent it."
— Neil Gaiman (Anansi Boys)

"I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."
— Robert Louis Stevenson

"The first I heard of the beach was in Bangkok, on the Ko Sanh Road."
— Alex Garland (The Beach)

"Some may never live, but the crazy never die."
— Hunter S. Thompson

"Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives... and to the "good life", whatever it is and wherever it happens to be."
— Hunter S. Thompson (Proud Highway:, The: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman)

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

"For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. 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

"My ambition is handicapped by laziness"
— Charles Bukowski (Factotum)

"We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing. "
— Charles Bukowski

"GOD: I own you like I own the caves.
THE OCEAN: Not a chance. No comparison.
GOD: I made you. I could tame you.
THE OCEAN: At one time, maybe. But not now.
GOD: I will come to you, freeze you, break you.
THE OCEAN: I will spread myself like wings. I am a billion tiny feathers. You have no idea what's happened to me."
— Dave Eggers (How We Are Hungry)

"What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.'"
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (The Gay Science with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs)

"The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself."
— William Blake

"If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine."
— Che Guevara

"I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man."
— Che Guevara

"Once in a stately passion I cried with desperate grief
'Oh Lord, my heart is black with guile, of sinners I am chief'
Then stooped my guardian angel and whispered from behind
'Vanity my little man, you're nothing of the kind'
"
— James Thomson

"It never got weird enough for me."
— Hunter S. Thompson

"For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled. "
— Hunter S. Thompson

"We are unusual and tragic and alive."
— Dave Eggers

"You invite things to happen. You open the door. You inhale. And if you inhale the chaos, you give the chaos, the chaos gives back."
— Dave Eggers (You Shall Know Our Velocity!)