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  • #1
    John   Waters
    “It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.”
    John Waters

  • #2
    John   Waters
    “We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don't have books, don't fuck them.”
    John Waters

  • #3
    John   Waters
    “You should never read just for "enjoyment." Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt to understand your friends' insane behavior, or better yet, your own. Pick "hard books." Ones you have to concentrate on while reading. And for god's sake, don't let me ever hear you say, "I can't read fiction. I only have time for the truth." Fiction is the truth, fool! Ever hear of "literature"? That means fiction, too, stupid.”
    John Waters, Role Models

  • #4
    John   Waters
    “I've had it with being nice, understanding, fair and hopeful. I feel like being negative all day. The chip on my shoulder could sink the QE2. I've got an attitude problem and nobody better get in my way...I'm in a bad mood and the whole stupid little world is gonna pay!”
    John Waters, Crackpot: The Obsessions of John Waters

  • #5
    John   Waters
    “Life is nothing if you're not obsessed.”
    John Waters

  • #6
    John   Waters
    “You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book.”
    John Waters

  • #7
    Harlan Ellison
    “You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
    Harlan Ellison

  • #8
    Harlan Ellison
    “I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned.
    Adult. You have become adult.”
    Harlan Ellison, Paingod and Other Delusions

  • #9
    Harlan Ellison
    “The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.”
    Harlan Ellison

  • #10
    Harlan Ellison
    “If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.”
    Harlan Ellison

  • #11
    Grant Morrison
    “Enough madness? Enough? And how do you measure madness? - The Joker”
    Grant Morrison, Batman: Arkham Asylum

  • #12
    Grant Morrison
    “Your head's like mine, like all our heads; big enough to contain every god and devil there ever was. Big enough to hold the weight of oceans and the turning stars. Whole universes fit in there! But what do we choose to keep in this miraculous cabinet? Little broken things, sad trinkets that we play with over and over. The world turns our key and we play the same little tune again and again and we think that tune's all we are.”
    Grant Morrison, The Invisibles, Volume 1: Say You Want a Revolution

  • #13
    Grant Morrison
    “Adults...struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can possibly fly, or how Batman can possibly run a multibillion-dollar business empire during the day and fight crime at night, when the answer is obvious even to the smallest child: because it's not real.”
    Grant Morrison, Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human

  • #14
    Grant Morrison
    “Sometimes it’s only madness that makes us what we are.”
    Grant Morrison, Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth

  • #15
    Grant Morrison
    “Metaphor is one of a group of problem-solving medicines known as figures of speech which are normally used to treat literal thinking and other diseases.”
    Grant Morrison, The Filth

  • #16
    Grant Morrison
    “We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.”
    Grant Morrison, Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human

  • #17
    Grant Morrison
    “Because it all derived from Superman. I mean, I love all the characters, but Superman is just this perfect human pop-culture distillation of a really basic idea. He's a good guy. He loves us. He will not stop in defending us. How beautiful is that? He's like a sci-fi Jesus. He'll never let you down. And only in fiction can that guy actually exist, because real guys will always let you down one way or another. We actually made up an idea that beautiful. That's just cool to me. We made a little paper universe where all of the above is true.”
    Grant Morrison

  • #18
    Grant Morrison
    “Only nothing is impossible.”
    Grant Morrison

  • #19
    Grant Morrison
    “There's a palace in your head, boy. Learn to live in it always.”
    Grant Morrison, The Invisibles, Volume 1: Say You Want a Revolution

  • #20
    Grant Morrison
    “We tell our children they're trapped like rats on a doomed, bankrupt, gangster-haunted planet with dwindling resources, with nothing to look forward to but rising sea levels and imminent mass extinctions, then raise a disapproving eyebrow when, in response, they dress in black, cut themselves with razors, starve themselves, gorge themselves, or kill one another.”
    Grant Morrison, Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human

  • #21
    Grant Morrison
    “We are the hands and eyes and ears, the sensitive probing feelers through which the emergent, intelligent universe comes to know its own form and purpose. We bring the thunderbolt of meaning and significance to unconscious matter, blank paper, the night sky. We are already divine magicians, already supergods. Why shouldn't we use all our brilliance to leap in as many single bounds as it takes to a world beyond ours, threatened by overpopulation, mass species extinction, environmental degradation, hunger, and exploitation? Superman and his pals would figure a way out of any stupid cul-de-sac we could find ourselves in - and we made Superman, after all. All it takes is that one magic word.”
    Grant Morrison, Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human

  • #22
    Grant Morrison
    “The interior of our skulls contains a portal to infinity.”
    Grant Morrison, Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human

  • #23
    Grant Morrison
    “Writers and artists build by hand little worlds that they hope might effect change in real minds, in the real world where stories are read. A story can make us cry and laugh, break our hearts, or make us angry enough to change the world.”
    Grant Morrison, Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human

  • #24
    Grant Morrison
    “Then I reminded myself that all intelligent children suffer bad dreams.”
    Grant Morrison, Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth

  • #25
    Grant Morrison
    “We're the new power, come to replace the old. Cameras in the head, children with microchips, spin doctors rewriting reality as it happens. ”
    Grant Morrison

  • #26
    Grant Morrison
    “The 'medium' is unaware of its attractiveness, that's all. Everyone loves comics. I've proven this to my own satisfaction by handing them out to acountants, insurance brokers, hairdressers, mothers of children, black belts, pop stars, taxi drivers, painters, lesbians, doctors etc. etc. The X-Files, Buffy, the Matrix, X-Men - mainstream culture is not what it once was when science fiction and comics fans huddled in cellars like Gnostic Christians dodging the Romans. We should come up into the light soon before we suffocate.”
    Grant Morrison

  • #27
    Herman Wouk
    “The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you are not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate well by pretending to be one. All the shortcuts and economies and common-sense changes that your native intelligence suggests to you are mistakes. Learn to quash them. Constantly ask yourself, "How would I do this if I were a fool?" Throttle down your mind to a crawl. Then you will never go wrong.”
    Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny



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