1987 Quotes

“If it's wild to your own heart, protect it. Preserve it. Love it. And fight for it, and dedicate yourself to it, whether it's a mountain range, your wife, your husband, or even (god forbid) your job. It doesn't matter if it's wild to anyone else: if it's what makes your heart sing, if it's what makes your days soar like a hawk in the summertime, then focus on it. Because for sure, it's wild, and if it's wild, it'll mean you're still free. No matter where you are.”
― Rick Bass

“I think that real friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high odds.”
― Stephen King, The Eyes of the Dragon

“W is for Women. They're awful, mendacious,
Nasty and selfish, cruel and salacious,
As thievish as gypsies, more crazy than Celts.
Be sure that you never fuck anything else.”
― P.J. O'Rourke, Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays, and (Other) Outrages of...

“Examined in color through the adjustable window of a computer screen, the Mandelbrot set seems more fractal than fractals, so rich is its complication across scales. A cataloguing of the different images within it or a numerical description of the set's outline would require an infinity of information. But here is a paradox: to send a full description of the set over a transmission line requires just a few dozen characters of code. A terse computer program contains enough information to reproduce the entire set. Those who were first to understand the way the set commingles complexity and simplicity were caught unprepared—even Mandelbrot.”
― James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science

“Qualche viaggio insieme su e giù nell'ascensore e la personalità viene fuori meglio che sul lettino di Freud.”
― Dino Basili, Tagliar corto

“Я реально думал, что у Мика не хватит наглости гастролировать без нас. Это была бы самая жесткая пощечина, которую только можно придумать. Это был бы смертный приговор впредь до подачи апелляции. И все ради чего? Но я ошибался и потому был в бешенстве и смертельной обиде. Мик таки поехал в тур. И тогда я ему устроил разгон, в основном в прессе. Первый выстрел звучал так, что, если он сначала не хочет играть концерты со Stones, а потом берет и едет в тур с группой “Хер и Чмырь”, я ему, сука, пасть порву. И Мик ответил со всем благородством: “Я люблю Кита, я им восхищаюсь… но я не чувствую, что мы можем с ним дальше сотрудничать на самом деле”. Я уж и не упомню всех наездов и подъебов, которых я наговорил, – “диско-хлопец”, “маленький дрочевый ансамбль Джаггера”, “что бы ему не записаться в Aerosmith?” – такого рода вещами я кормил тогда благодарные таблоиды. Все опустилось довольно низко. Однажды журналист спросил меня: “Когда вы уже перестанете собачиться друг с другом?” “У собаки и спросите”, – сказал я.”
― Кит Ричардс, Жизнь

“They dance the Hoochie Coochie when work is done. They dance by the light of the Moon. Buffalo Girls are plenty smart.”
― Bobette McCarthy

“The living body cannot be defined in terms of the binary opposites that structure conceptual reflection. The body is neither "subject nor object," neither "in itself" nor "for itself," neither res extensa nor res cogito. Rather the body is the mean between extremes—the "milieu" in which opposites like interiority and exteriority, as well as subjectivity and objectivity, intersect. Never reducible to the differences it simultaneously joins and separates, the body is forever entre-deux.”
― Mark C. Taylor, Altarity

“Yes, we believe in God but, unlike Americans, we don't trust him.”
― Laibach, Excerpts from Interviews 1980–1995

“The key to understanding Crowley is the same as the key to understanding the Marquis de Sade. Both wasted an immense amount of energy screaming defiance at the authority the resented so much, and lacked the insight to see that they were shaking their fists at an abstraction.”
― Colin Wilson, Aleister Crowley: The Nature of the Beast

“It is impossible to understand Crowley. unless we grasp that, like Madame Blavatsky and Mathers and Yeats and Florence Farr, he took magic as seriously as Lord Rutherford took atomic physics. Literarym commentators often make the same mistake about Yeats: that he regarded magic as a romantic exercise in suspension of disbelief. Yeat's [sic] magical notebooks reveal this to have been untrue; they go into overwhelming detail about magical procedures and symbols and show that he continued to be obsessed by it long after he ceased to be a member of the Golden Dawn.”
― Colin Wilson, Aleister Crowley: The Nature of the Beast