"I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use- silence, exile, and cunning."
— James Joyce (A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man)

"Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole."
— William S. Burroughs

"I feel like a wet seed, wild in the hot, blind earth.

~Dewey Dell"
— William Faulkner (As I Lay Dying)

"First find out what your hero wants. Then just follow him."
— Ray Bradbury

"If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up."
— H. S. Thompson