cynikaloptimist

"...it's important to have a good life in order to have a good death." Anita Schorsch

"If at first an idea isn't absurd, there is no hope for it." Albert Einstein

"All great truths begin as blasphemies." George Bernard Shaw

"It is you...who will define which I you think of when you think of when you say - I" Unknown

"While I thought that I was learning to live, I have been learning how to die." Leonardo Da Vinci

"The one thing that I can say for sure about death is that it appears to eliminate an awful lot of options." Tom Robbins

"Will you ever bring a better gift for the world than the breathing respect that you carry wherever you go right now?" William Strafford

"So bleak is the picture....that the bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century" Philip Shabecoff

"The only compromise I made with the platform I agreed that the deputies would not eat mescaline while on duty." Hunter S Thompson regarding his run for Sheriff of Aspen

"The purely biological view of humanity - sans politics, sans religion - is something we are unaccustomed to. We tend to think of humanity as exempt from nature by virtue of its technologies..." Barry Lopez