• "A question in your nerves is lit, yet you know there is no answer fit, to satisfy and show you not to quit, to keep it in your mind and not forget, that it is not she or he or them or it that you belong to." - It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding), Bob Dylan
• "I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wandering around with rucksacks, going up to mountains to pray, making children laugh and old men glad, making young girls happy and old girls happier, all of 'em Zen Lunatics who go about writing poems that happen to appear in their heads for no reason and also by being kind and also by strange unexpected acts keep giving visions of eternal freedom to everybody and to all living creatures" - The Dharma Bums, Kerouac
• "Who am I helping, what am I breaking, what am I giving, what am I taking? But you try with your whole soul best never to think these thoughts, and never to let them kind of thoughts gain ground, or make your heart pound, but then again you know why they're around, just waiting for a chance to slip and drop down. 'Cause sometimes you hear 'em when the night times comes creeping, and you fear that they might catch you a-sleeping" - Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan
• "The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does." - Allen Ginsberg
• "Cover the canvas at first go, and then work on till you see nothing more to add... Don't proceed according to the rules and principles, but paint was you observe and feel. Paint generously and unhersitantly, for it is best not to lose the first impression" - Pissaro
• "All this life is but a play, be thou the joyful player" - Mayor, Incredible String Band
• "All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together." -Kerouac
• "The infancy of simplicty of just being happy in the woods, conforming to nobody's idea about what to do, what should be done." Big Sur, Kerouac
• "Chaos unscrambled, back to the first harmonies, and the first light " -A Vast Confusion, Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• "Wonder could you ever know me, know the reason why I live? Is there nothing you can show me? Life seems so little to give. Once I climbed up the face of a mountain and ate the wild fruit there, fell asleep until the moonlight woke me, and I could taste your hair.

Isn't everybody dreaming? Then the voice I hear is real. Out of all the idle scheming , can't we have something to feel?" In A Station, The Band