A fundamentalist is someone who hates sin more than he loves virtue.
                                                      —John H. Schaar.

The last Christian died on the cross.
                                                      —Nietzsche.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
                                                      —George Bernard Shaw.

Forget about tearing down the establishment -- it'll never happen; the Octopus is too powerful. Instead, concentrate on building an alternative culture and passing it down to anyone who cares. Real ceremonies create positive energy, but when you focus solely on exposing Nazis, you are living in their twisted world.
                                                      —Steve Hager, editor, High Times.

The greatest social action is the individual heart . . . heart-to-heart resuscitation.
                                                      —Ram Dass.

In a culture such as ours, the subversives are the most important people, the smugglers,
                                                      —James Hillman.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
                                                      —Oscar Wilde.

I don’t need a job. Making this movie is not a job. I don’t have to work again, if I don’t want to. So I only make the movies I want to make, when it’s fun. Because if you’re not gonna have fun, why do it?
—Quentin Tarantino, on the Beijing set of his new movie, New York Times, Sept. 5, 2002.

"It’s not that I like to study. I have to."
—Seiji Ozawa, 67, recently retired conductor of the Boston Symphony, on why he’s spending so much time preparing for his new position as conductor of the Vienna State Opera, New York Times, Sept. 5, 2002.

Art matters. The price of art is very high. Not Sotheby’s price, which has nothing to do with art, but the price paid by the maker of art. Fun matters. Fun is cheap. The first fun (and still the most common) after all was hand-on-genitals. The only problem comes when we confuse art and fun. Some art is fun, and some fun is art. The overlap is small. It’s easy to measure the cultural, and thus the psychic, health of an era. Consider carefully how the people treat fun, and how they treat art.
                                                      —Anon.