Both you and I have seen
What time
Can do
– Thievery Corporation (Mix), Isabelle Antena – Nothing To Lose
‘Cause I’ve relied on my illusion
– Thievery Corporation (Mix), Sarah McLachlan – Dirty Little Secret
Miraculous! He could truly see into people for the first time.
– Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
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
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
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
A door onbust is always open to bustin’, but ye can’t onbust a door once you’ve busted en.
– H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man
The fact is, I’m all here: head, hands, legs, and all the rest of it, but it happens I’m invisible. It’s a confounded nuisance, but I am.
– H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man