As I hoe the corn, I sing to it, as I did when I was young.

- Placard at Medicine Wheel

It is the circuit as a whole rather than any one locale that constitutes the principal setting in relation to which Aguillians orchestrate their lives.

- Roger Rouse

If a numerical, alphabetic color-coding system is employed, it is done deliberately as a device, a construct, to counteract, dilute, augment or compliment the all-pervading obsessive cinema interest in plot, in narrative, in the "I am now going to tell you a story" school of film-making.

- Peter Greenaway

In actual fact, the knowledge contained in a mythical concept is confused, made of yielding, shapeless associations. One must firmly stress this open character of the concept; it is not at all an abstract, purified essence; it is a formless, unstable, nebulous condensation, whose unity and coherence are above all due to its function.

- Roland Barthes

In Spanish there is a word for which I can’t find a counterword in English. It is the verb vacilar, present participle vacilando. It does not mean vacillating at all. If one is vacilando, he is going somewhere but doesn’t greatly care whether or not he gets there, although he has direction. My friend Jack Wagner has often, in Mexico, assumed this state of being. Let us say we wanted to walk in the streets of Mexico City but not at random. We would choose some article almost certain not to exist there and then diligently try to find it.

- John Steinbeck

A rhizome has no beginning or end; it is always in the middle, between things, interbeing, intermezzo. The tree is a filiation, but the rhizome is alliance, uniquely alliance. The tree imposes the verb "to be," but the fabric of the rhizome is the conjunction, "and...and...and."

- Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari

I want ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhverything.

- David Lowery

In high school, you would go to a local show, and there would be a hardcore band, and then a ska band, and then a spacey metal band...But now it's always just four or five bands doing their slight variations on the exact same thing.

- Karl Tupper

In a very real sense, reality is a single matter-energy undergoing phase transitions of various kinds, with each new layer of accumulated "stuff" simply enriching the reservoir of nonlinear dynamics and nonlinear combinatorics available for the generation of novel structures and processes. Rock and winds, germs and words, are all different manifestations of this dynamic material reality, or, in other words, they all represent the different ways in which this single matter-energy expresses itself.

- Manuel de Landa

I try to make everyone's day a little more surreal.

- Calvin

I wanted to sort out the fragments of what i'd experienced from the media images that threatened to engulf what I actually saw, and the collagelike nature of a newspaper page encouraged my impulse to juxtapose my fragmentary thoughts in different styles.

- Art Spiegelman

And yet we could hurt no Man that we believe loves us. Let us then try what Love will do: For if Men did once see we Love them, we should soon find they would not harm us.

- William Penn

There ain't nothing wrong with another unity song.

- Operation Ivy

This is like the voice of the literate man, floundering in a milieu of ads, who boasts, "Personally, I pay no attention to ads..." The effects of technology do not occur at the level of opinions or concepts, but alter sense ratios or patterns of perception steadily and without any resistance.

- Marshall McLuhan

It's not the case that in the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes. In the future everyone will be famous all the time - but only in their own minds. It is lookalike fame, karaoke fame. There's only one task it's equal to: it messes with the head.

- Martin Amis

Man has no nature, only a history.

- Ortega y Gasset

Ahistoricool...You think this shit just dropped right out of the sky?

- Guy Piccioto

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change
Courage to change the things I can
And the wisdom to know the difference

- Reinhold Niebuhr(?)

If what I'm saying doesn't make any sense, that's because sense can not be made, it's something that must be sensed. And I for one am incensed by all this complacency: Why oppose war only when there's a war? Why defend the clinics only when they're attacked? Why support the squats in the parks only when the police come to close them down? Why are we always reactive? Let's activate something! Let's fuck shit up!

- John S. Hall

If you look at a dog following the advice of his nose, he traverses a patch of land in a completely unplottable manner. And he invariably finds what he is looking for.

- W. G. Sebald

I was of three minds,
Like a tree
In which there are three blackbirds.

- Wallace Stevens