"We are, all of us, growing volcanoes that approach the hour of their eruption, but how near or distant that is, nobody knows- not even God."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Cowboy: New York hood talk means kill the mother fucker wherever you find him. A rat is a rat is a rat is a rat. Is an informer."
— William S. Burroughs

"It is the strain of walking around the world-down the street, riding city buses and elevators, moving from place to place to place-and not knowing who might want to destroy you, who might like to fill your heart with poison, who might rob you and stab you, who might stand above you in the dark with a tarantula."
— Joe Meno (The Boy Detective Fails)