Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

-- Oscar Wilde

The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that

will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.

-- Mark Twain

You will wish you hadn't.

I am as desirous of being a good neighbor as I am of being a bad subject.

-- Henry David Thoreau

And as you are invaded and violated, so you subconsciously revenge yourself by invading and violating others over whom you have authority or can exercise compulsion. physical or moral. In this way all life has become a crazy quilt of authority, of domination and submission, of command and obedience, of coercion and subjection, of rulers and ruled, of violence and force in a thousand and one forms.

-- Alexander Berkman

Direct action is the insistence, when faced with structures of unjust authority, on acting as if one is already free.

-- David Graeber

You have no real enemies.

The Public is merely a multiplied "me."

-- Mark Twain

Tonight's the night: Sleep in a eucalyptus tree.

Your supervisor is thinking about you.

"...The name of the song is called 'Haddocks' Eyes'!"

"Oh, that's the name of the song, is it?" Alice said, trying to

feel interested.

"No, you don't understand," the Knight said, looking a little

vexed. "That's what the name is called. The name really is, 'The Aged

Aged Man.'"

"Then I ought to have said "That's what the song is called'?"

Alice corrected herself.

"No, you oughtn't: that's quite another thing! The song is

called 'Ways and Means': but that's only what it is called you know!"

"Well, what is the song then?" said Alice, who was by this

time completely bewildered.

"I was coming to that," the Knight said. "The song really is

"A-sitting on a Gate": and the tune's my own invention."

-- Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking Glass"

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

-- William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice"

Q: What do you call a boomerang that doesn't come back?

A: A stick.

Free love? As if love is anything but free! Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere.

-- Emma Goldman

Actually inventing or producing things is at best the path to small-time wealth. The really big fortunes -- the billionaire kind -- instead come from controlling the circumstances under which other people are allowed to produce things.

-- Kevin Carson

We might mention the monumental hypocrisy of the regulation of credit unions in the United States, which require that their membership must share some common bond, like working for the same employer.

-- Kevin Carson

You will always get the greatest recognition for the job you least like.

Anarchy -- the sovereignty of the individual over his own actions -- is the goal for which we strive. Communism is one of those incidents that come afterwards.

-- Joseph Labadie

For those who stubbornly seek freedom around the world, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination.

-- Noam Chomsky

It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against one in public.

-- Oscar Wilde