Burnin’

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities. - Frank Lloyd Wright

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. -Robert Frost

The promise of business is to increase the general well-being of humankind through service, a creative invention and ethical philosophy. -Paul Hawken

Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare. - Guy de Maupassant

The Web, in my view, has its own crisp idiom — a fusion of the verbal with the visual. -Camille Paglia

Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. -Kurt Vonnegut

One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. - Harry G. Frankfurt

‘Tis the time’s plague, when madmen lead the blind. - William Shakespeare

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. - Hunter S. Thompson

When a thing is current, it creates currency. - Marshall McLuhan

Some are building monuments, others, jotting down notes. - Bob Dylan

I could do my imitation of an important novelist entering Elaine’s, but why? There’s no bigger trip than self-importance — to blind you, to decrease the energy of your art. - Jim Harrison

A line will take us hours maybe;
Yet if it does not seem a moment’s thought,
Our stitching and unstitching has been naught. - W.B. Yeats

All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the lake, like Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, and there are trickles, like Jean Rhys…. I don’t matter. The lake matters. You must keep feeding the lake. - Jean Rhys

My wants are simple. I have no desire to latch onto a monster symbol of fate and prove my manhood in a titantic piscine war. But sometimes I do like a couple of cooperative fish of frying size. –John Steinbeck

Man is kind enough when he’s not excited by religion, but once the holy holies have got a grip on him he’s capable of almost anything. It doesn’t matter if he’s a Christian, Hindu, Jew, or Muslim. If he’s made up his mind that you need reforming, he will do it with anything handy–an ax, eight hundred years of witch burning or, if necessary, he’ll blow you up. - Mark Twain

…a democracy conceived in the military servitude of the masses, in their economic enslavement, and nurtured in their tears and blood, is not a democracy at all. It is despotism–the cumulative result of a chain of abuses which, according to that dangerous document, The Declaration of Independence, the people have a right to overthrow… -Emma Goldman

God knows we are the most materialistic of all modern civilizations on earth today. We are looking too much down along our own noses and so we don’t see very far into the future. But we’ve soon got to realize that this materialism we’re championing, living upon, and calling success is not bona fide. It can’t last and it won’t result in the happiness or growth of the soul of the human being. It’s temporal beyond all words, menial in culture beyond anything the world has yet seen. -Frank Lloyd Wright

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others,
rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. - Frederick Douglass

America continues to remain the enigma it has always been - a curiously insular people,
administered by a pathologically meddlesome, promiscuous government. - Arundhati Roy

You can always rely on America to do the right thing. Once it has exhausted the alternatives. - Winston Churchill

Americans are the best entertained and least informed people on earth. -Bobby Kennedy Jr.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Nationalism is an infantile disease. - Albert Einstein

Without love in the dream it will never come true. - Robert Hunter

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Every flower got a right to be bloomin’. - Michael Franti

I want my funk uncut. - George Clinton

Coffee is for closers. - David Mamet