Quotes About Challenge

In times such as ours, however, when there is too much order, too much management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery.

Difficulties illuminate existence, but they must be fresh and of high quality.

If complexity doesn't beat you, paradox will.

Are you to be an individual, a trespasser in territory none else has had the wit or nerve to explore, or just another troublesome mosquito to be swatted by the authorities?

There's nothing like the word dangerous to generate interest: it's irresistible to young males, scary to most young females.

When I was younger, before this layoff which has nearly finished me, I hitchhiked one hundred and twenty-seven hours without stopping, without food or sleep, crossed the continent twice in six days, cooled my thumbs in both oceans and caught rides after midnight on unlighted highways, such was my skill, persuasion, rhythm. I set records and immediately cracked them; went farther, faster than any hitchhiker before or since.

When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing. Reach a nice level plateau and settle there, predictable and unchanging, no longer a threat.

Life is hard - if you think it's hard.

Authority is to be ridiculed, outwitted and avoided.

IF THIS TYPEWRITER CAN'T DO IT, then fuck it, it can't be done.

We each took a fierce delight in introducing the other to some new idea or development, the next amazing artist or record album, always hustling to out-avant the other's garde.

Remember: no hand is a winning hand 'til you dare to lay it down. - Wild Card

When you blow up a major life situation, as I did on two fronts before leaving Richmond, the explosion can leave a hole in your psyche. Nature abhors a vacuum, however, and over time the crater is almost certain to fill in with new wisdom -- or fresh folly. Sometimes it can be a challenge to tell the difference.

And the largest piece was buried beneath a pile of offal Ziller had gathered along the bridle paths of Central Park. Naturally, as the days wore on, the exhibition began to engage senses other than sight and touch, offering somewhat of a challenge to olfactory aesthetics.

if this typewriter cant do it fuck it

won many a beer betting that Reno, Nevada, was farther west than Los Angeles, and Portland, Oregon, farther north than Portland, Maine. (You can look it up.)

a novel that does its own stunts

everytime you got somethin' good goin', look like somebody got to fuck it up.

If somebody else is the incumbent, your chances are very low.

It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.

I would join Sisyphus in Hades and gladly push my boulder up the slope if only, each time it rolled back down, I were given a line of Aeschylus.

the natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. strangely enough it all works out in the end... it's a mystery.

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

Can't you function unless you're losing?