"We don't understand the power of nature and the world because we don't live with it. Our environment is designed to sustain us. We are the domestic pets of a human zoo called civilization."
— Laurence Gonzales (Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why)

"what matters most is how well you walk through the fire"
— Charles Bukowski

"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

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When the going gets weird the weird turn pro."
— Hunter S. Thompson

"THE EDGE, there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over"
— Hunter S. Thompson

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

"Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously."
— Hunter S. Thompson

"A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance."
— Hunter S. Thompson

"In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity."
— Hunter S. Thompson

"No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it off to forced conscious expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten."
— Hunter S. Thompson

"Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex."
— Hunter S. Thompson

"Without this playing with fantasy, no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable."
— Carl Gustav Jung

"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe