“It is a vulgar and barbarous drama, which would not be tolerated by the vilest populace of France, or Italy …one would imagine this piece to be the work of a drunken savage.” —Voltaire on Shakespeare's "Hamlet"

Like a mute without a voice
With a bottle in my hand, make some noise
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead "All Saints Day"

Zeus most glorious and most great, Thundercloud, throned in the heavens! Let not the sun go down and the darkness come, until I cast down headlong the citadel of Priam in flames, and burn his gates with blazing fire, and tear to rags the shirt upon Hectors breast! May many of his men fall about him prone in the dust and bite the earth!
- Homer - The Iliad

Je suis marxiste tendance Groucho.
I am a Marxist of the Groucho tendency.

Le patron a besoin de toi, tu n'as pas besoin de lui.
The boss needs you, you don’t need the boss.

Nous ne voulons pas d’un monde où la certitude de ne pas mourir de faim s'échange contre le risque de mourir d’ennui.
We don't want a world where the guarantee of not dying of starvation brings the risk of dying of boredom.

I had gotten to the point where I was either going to play the violin much better or I was going to break it over my knee.
- Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.
- Henry Rollins

Sous les pavés, la plage!
Beneath the pavement, the beach!