quotables

"The more I see the less I know" - Snow, Red Hot Chili Peppers

"It's a great adventure, your life, and it has only just begun...." Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

On Lateral Knowlegde:
'To describe a growth of knowledge that doesn't move forward like an arrow in flight, but expands sideways.....Lateral knowledge is knowledge that's from a wholly unexpected direction, from a direction that's not even understood as a direction until the knowledge forces itself upon you'
-Taken from Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

'As a private person, I have a pssion for landscape, and I have never seen one improved by a billboard. Where every prospect pleases, man is at his vilest when he erects a billboard. When I retire from Madison Avenue, i am going to start a secret society of masked vigilantes who will travel around the world on silent bikes, chopping down posters at the darm of the moon. How many juries will convict us when we are caught in these acts of beneficent citizenship'
-Opening Paragraph in Klein's No Logo

'you have no duties to fulfill which require puncuality or exactitude'
-Marks on Hashish, The Howard Marks Book of Dope Stories