"Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone."
— Dorothy Parker

"Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream"
— Jack Kerouac

"The weight of the world is love.
Under the burden of solitude,
under the burden of dissatisfaction
the weight,the weight we carry is love. "
— Allen Ginsberg

"when you educate yourself about clitoredectomies, infibulation, forced prostitution, rape as a war tactic, patriarchal religions, women painters, filmmakers, poets, writers, activists, politicians, sex-industry workers, historians, archelogoists and musicians, that’s self-protection."
— Inga Muscio (Cunt: A Declaration of Independence)

"Belize: The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word "free" to a note so high nobody could reach it. That was deliberate. "
— Tony Kushner