Quotes

"Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident."
- jean-paul sartre

"When I die I would like to be born again as me."
- hugh hefner

"Punctuality is the virtue of the bored."
- evelyn waugh

"It takes a lot of time to be a genius, ,you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing."
- gertrude stein

"Fame is a job in New York."
- andy warhol

"If Michelangelo had been a hetrosexual, the Sistine Chapel would have been painted white and with a roller."
- rita mae brown

"There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten."
- indira gandhi

"I think it would be a good idea."
- mathatma gandhi on being asked his view on western civilization

"I was too polite to ask."
- gore vidal, asked whether his first sexual experience was homosexual or heterosexual

"I can tell a lot about a fellow's character by the way he eats jellybeans."
- ronald reagen

"The goal of a democratic society should be to make every man an artist."
- jack burnam

"With LSD, the apocalypse becomes an everyday occurence."
- allen ginsberg

"The streets these days are full of cockroaches and most of them are human."
- mike gore

"Living is abnormal."
- eugene ionesco

"I remember reading Ginsberg and Burroughs in high school and thinking maybe I should be gay for artistic reasons..."
- glenn o'brian

"For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum."
- j.w. shopf

"It is not a certain society that seems ridiculous to me; it's mankind."
- eugene ionesco

"I once suffered from a case of insomnia - but then I got tired and feel asleep."
- anthony

"The only person above God is his publisher."
- anthony

"God is the manager of this company - get your man or eternal life".
- daniel, on a christian dating service

"It's a good concept - but then so was Communism."
- daniel

"Don't mistake me. I am feeling dangerously content tonight. As in, if someone tried to stop me from laughing and grinning moronically at the moment, I might hack them with a paperclip."
- anh

"The more depressed you are now; the more enlightened you will become."
- advice given to me by anthony

"Do you ever feel an urge to spell complex words with m&m's?"
- daniel

"I couldn't be an existentialist because existentialists seize the moment and I just make lists about the moment."
- kieran

"I think we took a wrong turn on the path of reality."
- anthony

"There's always a market for socialism."
- anh, on the interests of arts students

"When I leave school I'm going to be a mass-suicidist."
- heard at school.

"...and ever since then I've eaten spaghetti."
- heard walking past a man eating with a friend at an outdoor cafe.

"...just write it down as I dictate. 'In our art classes, we are learning how to develop individuality'..."
- a friend's art teacher during class

"It makes me lose my faith in humanity."
- my history teacher, on people not bringing their books to class.

"Techno music is a form of tourture in some countries."
- during a conversation on chat