Miraculous! He could truly see into people for the first time.
– Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
And yet he never felt panic. It was an abstract thought.
– 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
Wind, wind send me not this place, though, onward…
– Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
You’ll say the world has come between us
Our lives have come between us
– Deep Blue Something, Breakfast at Tiffanys
And we will hustle, hustle, hustle to be free
Free from all the
Happy thoughts and smiles across the sea
– Tunng, Hustle
It’s strange to find such light
In such endless night
– Tunng, Hustle
If the words “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” don’t include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn’t worth the hemp it was written on.
– Terence McKenna, read in Clifford Pickover’s A Beginner’s Guide to Immortality
Our society desperately needs generalists who traverse several fields and then bring together ideas in ways that specialists may be unable to do, but we seem to be learning more and more about less and less until we know everything about nothing.
– Clifford Pickover, A Beginner’s Guide to Immortality
One vital characteristic of a highly creative person is that they have at least one other person in their life who doesn’t think they are completely nuts.
– Vera John-Steiner, in Helen Phillips’s “Looking for Inspiration,” New Scientist, October 29, 2005, read in Clifford Pickover’s A Beginner’s Guide to Immortality