"How could I have thought that I needed to cure myself in order to fit into the 'real' world? I didn't need curing, and the world didn't, either; the only thing that did need curing was my understanding of my place in it..." -J. Franzen

"the most revolutionary act any of us can take part in is THINKING FOR OURSELVES." - Alia Michelle

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. - Albert Camus

Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door. - Albert Camus

"‎The fictional characters in my books had allowed me to understand what was hard for me to understand (which, so far, had been nearly everything) … narrative imagination—and therefore fiction—was a basic evolutionary tool of survival." - Aleksandar Hemon

“The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.” ~Adrienne Rich

"The voice is a WILD thing...It can't be bred in captivity." - Willa Cather