There is nothing one fears more or is more ashamed of than not being oneself. Yet few people realize even an approximation of their true potential. Most people must live with varying degrees of the shame and fear of not being fully in control of themselves.

There's a boy across the river with an ass like a peach; alas I was no swimmer and lost my Clementine.

It's the little touches that make a future solid enough to destroy.

Tell Allen I plead guilty to vampirism and other crimes against life. But I love him and nothing else cancels love.

I've seen villages in South America with no police whatever. Then the cops would arrive, then the sanitary inspectors, and before you know it they've got all the problems - crime, juvenile delinquency, the whole works - just like us.

Cheat your landlord if you can -- and must -- but do not try to shortchange the Muse.

The underground press serves as the only effective counter to a growing power, and more sophisticated techniques used by establishment mass media to falsify, misrepresent, misquote, rule out of consideration as a priori ridiculous, or simply ignore and blot out of existence: data, books, discoveries that they consider prejudicial to establishment interest.