Mark > Mark's Quotes

“The fact that, in the United States, there are people serving ten-year prison terms for growing marijuana plants in their backyards while Wall Street racketeers, who have defrauded millions of people and destroyed the global economy, walk free is a kind of bizarre hypocrisy that boggles my mind.”
― Mark Haskell Smith, Heart of Dankness: Underground Botanists, Outlaw Farmers, and the Race for the Cannabis Cup

“One bullet can really fuck up your day.”
― Mark Haskell Smith, Baked

“I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun. ”
― George Plimpton

“I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The novelist who refuses sentiment refuses the full spectrum of human behavior, and then he just dries up. ... I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.”
― Jim Harrison

“Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.”
― Ovid

“To be radical is to grasp things by the root.”
― Karl Marx, Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right