Brian Mcinnis

“The difference between the right word and the nearly right word is the same as that between lightning and the lightning bug.”
― Mark Twain

“My feeling is that if your identity is not just "Homo sapiens" at this point, you have a problem, and it's a problem for the rest of us. And so we have to outgrow that problem. Now, it's perfectly understandable that people identify with a smaller tribe, and they're Americans, or they're Republicans, or they're black, or they're Jewish, or whatever it is. But the end-game for a global civilization has got to be that we take all of that more and more lightly, so that at a certain point, we only do it for fun. It's just a game. Like I'm a Yankees fan, you're a Red Sox fan, we're gonna pretend to hate each other, but we do it because it's fun. And if it's not just fun, it's fucking pathological.”
― Sam Harris

“Take it easy, but take it.”
― Woody Guthrie

“Nothing was ever in tune. People just blindly grabbed at whatever there was: communism, health foods, zen, surfing, ballet, hypnotism, group encounters, orgies, biking, herbs, Catholicism, weight-lifting, travel, withdrawal, vegetarianism, India, painting, writing, sculpting, composing, conducting, backpacking, yoga, copulating, gambling, drinking, hanging around, frozen yogurt, Beethoven, Back, Buddha, Christ, TM, H, carrot juice, suicide, handmade suits, jet travel, New York City, and then it all evaporated and fell apart. People had to find things to do while waiting to die. I guess it was nice to have a choice.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women