Category: thoughts

You need to claim the events of your life to make yourself yours.

Anne-Wilson Schaef

Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?

Charles Bukowski

If critics say your work stinks it’s because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with their comfortable little standards. Standards so low that they can no longer be considered “dangerous” but set in place in their compartmental understandings.

Jack Kerouac

The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible.

William S. Burroughs

I prefer to be subcultural rather than mass-cultural. I’m not interested in hitting the vein of the mainstream.

Jim Jarmusch