Tea Krulos > Tea's Quotes

“When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.”
― Jimmy Breslin

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

“I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

“Everybody, everybody everywhere, has his own movie going, his own scenario, and everybody is acting his movie out like mad, only most people don’t know that is what they’re trapped by, their little script.”
― Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

“I always love to quote Albert Einstein because nobody dares contradict him.”
― Studs Terkel

“People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel”
― Studs Terkel

“Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

“Mistakes are a part of being human. Precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.”
― Al Franken

“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald

“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

“I wasn't sure how it looked on paper when a crew of costumed oddballs took on Canadian meth dealers.”
― Tea Krulos, Heroes in the Night: Inside the Real Life Superhero Movement

“Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.”
― William S. Burroughs

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

“Audaces fortuna iuvat (latin)- Fortune favors the bold.”
― Virgil

“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale