Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy, for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice. - Diogenes of Sinope

Whether you spend your work days throwing barrels or leaping them, let's take one day to empty a few together. Cheers to you, my friends, and all your labors!

I don't drink anymore. I freeze it now and eat it like a Popsicle. - Dean Martin

The lamps are going out all over Europe: we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.

-- "Twenty-five Years", Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human. I felt very puny as a human. I thought, "Fuck that. I want to be a superhuman." - David Bowie

It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness.

-- "Hawthorne and His Mosses", Herman Melville

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

-- Last Words of Crowfoot

I thought I could organize freedom,
How Scandinavian of me.

-- "Hunter", Bjork

If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up. - Hunter S. Thompson

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. - Charles H. Spurgeon