Who I'd like to meet:

“Everything you’ve learned in school as “obvious” becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There’s not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.” - Buckminster Fuller

"I would prefer a kind of intellectual anarchy where whatever was pragmatically applicable was brought to bear on any situation; where belief was understood as a self- limiting function. Because, you see, if you believe something , you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite; which means that a degree of your human freedom has been forfeited in the act of committing yourself to this belief." - Terence Mckenna

"If you don't contradict yourself your position isn't complex enough" - Terence Mckenna

"Progress of human civilization in the area of defining human freedom is not made from the top down. No king, no parliament, no government ever extended to the people more rights than the people insisted upon. And I think we've come to a place with this psychedelic issue. And we have the gay community as a model, and all the other communities, the ethnic communities. We simply have to say, Look: LSD has been around for fifty years now, we just celebrated the birthday. It ain't going away. WE are not going away. We are not slack-jawed, dazed, glazed, unemployable psychotic creeps. We are pillars of society. You can't run your computers, your fashion houses, your publishing houses, your damn magazines, you can't do anything in culture without psychedelic people in key positions." - Terence Mckenna

"What I'm advocating is that we each take responsibility for the cultural transformation by realising that it is not something that will be disseminated from the top down, it is something which each of us can contribute to by attempting to live as far into the future as possible." - Terence McKenna

"George Bush says we are losing the war on drugs. You know what that implies? There's a war going on, and people on drugs are winning it!" - Bill Hicks

"No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn." - Jim Morrison

"America is not at war. The Marine Corps is at war; America is at the mall." - Anonymous wall scrawling

"What beautiful and priceless potlatches the affluent society will see -- whether it likes it or not! -- when the exuberance of the younger generation discovers the pure gift; a growing passion for stealing books, clothes, food, weapons or jewelry simply for the pleasure of giving them away"- Raoul Vaneigem

"I am chaos. I am the substance from which your artists and scientists build rhythms. I am the spirit with which your children and clowns laugh in happy anarchy. I am chaos. I am alive, and I tell you that you are free." - Eris

"FEED YOUR HEAD" - Grace Slick

"We barely remember who or what came before this precious moment, we are choosing to be here right now. Hold on, stay inside this holy reality, this holy experience." - Maynard James Keenan

"I embrace my desire to feel the rhythm, to feel connected enough to step aside and weep like a widow, to feel inspired, to fathom the power, to witness the beauty, to bathe in the fountain, to swing on the spiral of our divinity and still be a human." - Maynard James Keenan

"Down with a world in which the guarantee that we will not die of starvation has been purchased with the guarantee that we will die of boredom." - Anonymous graffiti, Paris 1968

"Live without dead time" - Anonymous graffiti, Paris 1968

"You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your fucking khakis. You're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world." - Tyler Durden, AKA Chuck Palahniuk

"In the world I see - you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Tower. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying strips of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighway." - Tyler Durden, AKA Chuck Palahniuk

"Those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music" -Nietzsche

"There is a crack in everything. Thats how the light gets in." -Leonard Cohen

"The World is my country, science my religion" - Christiaan Huygens

"When I take a long look at my life, as though from the outside, it does not appear particularly happy. Yet I am even less justified in calling it unhappy, despite all its mistakes. After all, it is foolish to keep probing for happiness or unhappiness, for it seems to me it would be hard to exchange the unhappiest days in my life for all the happy ones. If what matters in a person's existence is to accept the inevitable consciously, to taste the good and the bad to the full and to make for oneself a more individual, unaccidental and inward destiny alongside one's external fate, the my life has been neither empty nor worthless. Even if, as it is decreed by the gods, fate has inexorably trod over my external existence as it does with everyone, my inner life has been of my own making. I deserve its sweetness and bitterness and accept full responsibility for it." - Opening paragraph of Gertrude by Hermann Hesse

"It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'" - Aldous Huxley