Now, you’re either on the bus or off the bus. If you’re on the bus, and you get left behind, then you’ll find it again. If you’re off the bus in the first place – then it won’t make a damn.
– Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Obviously, according to this principle, man does not have free will. There is no use in his indulging in a lifelong competition to change the structure of the little environment he seems to be trapped in. But one could see the larger pattern and move with it – Go with the flow! – and accept it and rise above one’s immediate environment and even alter it by accepting the larger pattern and grooving with it – Put your good where it will do the most!
– Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
My own character is of little consequence. It is the character of others which concerns me. I devote a great many hours of the study of it.
– Jane Austin and Seth Grahame-Smith, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
– Jane Austin and Seth Grahame-Smith, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Rocket arrows chart the motion of the stars you see,
Paper money on the go (go go)
Cartographic lines will mark the place for you and me
And we can change the things we know
– Faded Paper Figures, Invent Them All Again
Because when the blood begins to flow
There’s nowhere else to go
I feel complete
In the mercy seat
– Seavault, Mercy Seat
We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured. It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.
– Jane Austin and Seth Grahame-Smith, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Wind, wind send me not this place, though, onward…
– Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.
– Jane Austin and Seth Grahame-Smith, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
But these are words, man! And you couldn’t put it into words.
– Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test