The world has to tell us. In other words, we don't have an agenda or a battle plan or a map or a direction or anything. We're just going along, and our world is telling us.

We're like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.

You ain't gonna learn what you don't wanna know.

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

Truth is something you stumble into when you think you're going someplace else.

You don't want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.

Nothing left to do but smile.

It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.

Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.

If you're able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.

All I know is, if you listen to society, you'll never get anywhere!

Most often a country is poor when its educational system is poor and individuals do not strive to become educated.

He could always go back to be a shepherd, but he had a dream. That's doesn't happen to just anyone.

The real purpose of the opposition is to minimize the amount of money the ruling party will have stolen from the people at the end of its term.

I turn off my cell phone and reluctantly slide it down my pocket. My hands are shaking. A large knife appears in his hand.”William Wilson in the short story 'Metro' by Steen Langstrup

We were told this war would be over in a matter of weeks, and that the Iraqis would be able to finance it with oil sales. We were promised it was not a mission of nation building.

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

Nobody needs to worry whether or not I've been tested.

Funny that. We live in islands of Hours and we never seem to have time enough for anything.

The closer you can get to your setting and to primary sources, the more authentic your history is going to be.

It looks like a miniature hippopotamus with badly-fitting panty hose all over.