"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
-Douglas Adams

"If you cannot laugh at yourself, you may be missing the collosal joke of the universe."
-Dame Edna

"Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible."
-M.C.Escher

"Computer games don't affect kids. I mean, if Pac-man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills, and listening to repetitive electronic music..."
A dark ironic tale of an ultra-violent future.

"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."
-Albert Einstein

"Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions."
-Thomas Szasz

"English doesn't borrow from other languages; it follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over, and goes through their pockets looking for loose grammar."

"The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity."
-Harlan Ellison

"Worry is the misuse of imagination."
-Dan Zadra

"If you never try anything new, you'll miss out on many of life's greatest disappointments."

"The trouble with the world is that it's always one drink behind."
-Humphrey Bogart

"Fight the real enemy..."
-Sinead O'Conner

"I can't remember is not the same as I don't know."

"I'll carry your books, I'll carry a tune, I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash & carry, Carry Me Back To Old Virginia, I'll even Hara Kari if you show me how, but I will *not* carry a gun."
-Hawkeye (M*A*S*H)

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
-Mohandas Gandhi

"In the end we all are what we are, now matter how we appear to have changed."

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"I think extreme heterosexuality is a perversion."
-Margaret Mead

"To love at all is to be vulnerable."
-C.S. Lewis

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be."
-Kurt Vonnegut

"The primeval man was round, his back and sides forming a circle; and he had four hands and four feet, one head with two faces, looking opposite ways, set on a round neck and precisely alike; also four ears, two privy members, and the remainder to correspond"
-Plato's Symposium

"There is not a man of them who when he heard the proposal would deny or would not acknowledge that this meeting and melting into one another, this becoming one instead of two, was the very expression of his ancient need. And the reason is that human nature was originally one and we were a whole, and the desire and pursuit of the whole is called love."
-Plato's Symposium

"If you know someone completely, they are too shallow to be worth knowing."

"Until he extends the circle of compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace."
-Albert Schweitzer

"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."
-Douglas Adams

"It is better to break one's heart than to do nothing with it."
-Margaret Kennedy

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. "
-Henry David Thoreau

Nonviolence and cowardice are contradictory terms. Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice. Nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate. Nonviolence always suffers, cowardice would always inflict suffering. Perfect nonviolence is the highest bravery. Nonviolent conduct is never demoralizing, cowardice always is.
-Mohandas Gandhi

"For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof; the work for which all other work is but preparation"
-Rainer Maria Rilke

"Too many of us stay walled because we are afraid of being hurt. We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

"When you are truly in love with someone, then you'll let them in, tearing down all of your walls to do so, remaining vulnerable and naked."

Gandhi was once asked what he thought about western civilization. His response was: "I think it would be a good idea."

Black Rook In Rainy Weather
Last Year's Man
As I Sat Sadly By Her Side
Decades
The Origin of Love
Androgynous
Alice
What's He Building?
Lament

"There's a sweetness in the worst things"

"Two headed boy she is all you could need
She will feed you tomatoes and radio wires
And retire to sheets safe and clean
But don't hate her when she gets up to leave"

"if she doesn't exist,
why do I miss her?"

"You can't remember the others.
They just kind of went away..."

"Mother, will they put me in the firing line?"

"I'll never tell you
Of all the different ways
You make me so afraid..."