"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love."
— Charles Bukowski (Women)

"It was true that I didn’t have much ambition, but there ought to be a place for people without ambition, I mean a better place than the one usually reserved. How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?
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— Charles Bukowski (Factotum)

"A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer goods, status -- all these in one event. I myself see the car crash as a tremendous sexual event really: a liberation of human and machine libido (if there is such a thing)."
— J.G. Ballard

"I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction. "
— Georges Bataille

"If our life lacks a constant magic it is because we choose to observe our acts and lose ourselves in consideration of their imagined form and meaning, instead of being impelled by their force."
— Antonin Artaud (The Theater and Its Double)

"Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem."
— Woody Allen

"I'm not anti-social. I'm just not social."
— Woody Allen