Words, words, words

“He who thinks a great deal is not suited to be a party man: he thinks his way through the party and out the other side too soon.”

–Friedrich Nietzsche

“To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.”

-Theodore Roosevelt

“On a personal level, Freaking Out is a process whereby an individual casts off outmoded and restricting standards of thinking, dress, and social etiquette in order to express creatively his relationship to his immediate environment and the social structure as a whole.”

-Frank Zappa

“War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.”

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian

“But our trip was different. It was a classic affirmation of everything right and true and decent in the national character. It was a gross, physical salute to the fantastic possibilities of life in this country-but only for those with true grit. And we were chock full of that.”

-Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas