"It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words."
-Eric Hoffer

“ I will never forget those timeless days when I would come upon a group of flowers and stop so I could smell their beauty. Now that I am older and almost ready to face the world I look back on my youth and wonder if I will ever be able to smell the world the same way again”
-Noe DeWitt

"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours."
-Hunter S. Thompson

"It's because we're so trapped in our culture, in the being of being human on this planet with the brains we have, and the same two arms and legs everybody has. We're so trapped that any way we could imagine to escape would be just another part of the trap. Anything we want, we're trained to want."
-Chuck Palahniuk

"As well as making a token contribution to his own upkeep, his wages went on LSD and heroin, although he avoided cocaine because of its dangerous tendency to make him 'too sociable."
-Christopher Sandford

“An inexhaustible source
Of divine inspiration
Childlike innocence
Draped without pretence
Unable to pose
Yet unable to provide
Anything but unashamed beauty”
-Peter Bosch

"Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents."
-Marilyn Monroe