Mickey

“The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage & whup their supporters into an orgiastic frenzy—then go back to the office & sell every one of the poor bastards down the tube for a nickel apiece.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72

“I wish we could be trees deep in the mountains,
touching, twining limb around limb.”
― Po Chu-i, The Selected Poems of Po Chü-i

“I feel closer ties and more intimate bonds with certain characters in books, with certain images I’ve seen in engravings, than with many supposedly real people, with that metaphysical absurdity known as “flesh and blood.” In fact “flesh and blood” describes them very well: they resemble cuts of meat laid out on the butcher’s marble slab, dead creatures bleeding as though still alive, the sirloin steaks and cutlets of Fate.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.”
― Alan Watts