"A map of the world that does..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it. The public like to insult poets because they are individual, but once they have insulted them, they leave them alone.”

“He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.”

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”

“Progress is the realization of utopia.”

“Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.”

“John Dorschner, one of our staff writers here at Tropic magazine at The Miami Herald, who is a good friend of mine and an excellent journalist, but a raving liberal, wrote a story about a group that periodically pops up saying that they're going to start their own country or start their own planet or go back to their original planet, or whatever. They were going to "create a libertarian society" on a floating platform in the Caribbean somewhere. I know there's never going to be a country on a floating anything, but if they want to talk about it, that's great.”

“It will always be found that one flourishing institution exists and battens on another mouldering one. The Present itself is parasitic to this extent.”

“Improving your life doesn’t have to be about changing everything – it’s about making changes that count.”

“Perchance the time will come when we shall not be content to go back and forth upon a raft to some huge Homeric or Shakespearean Indiaman that lies upon the reef, but build a bark out of that wreck and others that are buried in the sands of this desolate island, and such new timber as may be required, in which to sail away to whole new worlds of light and life, where our friends are.”