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What's the deal with your nickname? How did you get it? If your nickname is self-explanatory, then tell everyone when you first started using the internet, and what was the first thing that made you say "wow, this isn't just a place for freaks after all?" Was it a website? Was it an email from a long-lost friend? Go on, spill it.

"After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say I WANT TO SEE THE MANAGER"
-- William S. Burroughs

"listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot, which was taught in immense milky way soft cloud innumerable worlds long ago and not even at all. It is all one vast awakened thing. I call it the golden eternity."
-- Jack Kerouac

"The elevator is not too crowded. We are all silent and perfectly
behaved, except a little girl who is whispering something to her
mother. Her mother holds her hand and bends down to listen.
The little girl giggles. Hunching her shoulders and screwing up
her face. She has told her mother something outrageous."
-- Lew Welch

"the experience of wondering at the existence of the world ... is the experience of seeing the world as a miracle."
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

"'Kindness' covers all of my political beliefs. No need to spell them out. I believe that if, at the end, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn’t always know this and am happy I lived long enough to find it out."
--Roger Ebert

"The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms- this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the rank of devoutly religious men."
-- Albert Einstein

"Humanity—barely shaken awake from the old majesty of dead mythologies—wildly runs blindly through the same forest of explanatory fantasies."
--@BrokenDasein

"The male 'artistic' aim being, not to communicate (having nothing inside him he has nothing to say), but to disguise his animalism, he resorts to symbolism and obscurity ('deep' stuff). The vast majority of people, particularly the 'educated' ones, lacking faith in their own judgment, humble, respectful of authority ('Daddy knows best'), are easily conned into believing that obscurity, evasiveness, incomprehensibility, indirectness, ambiguity and boredom are marks of depth and brilliance"
-- Valerie Solanas. The S.C.U.M. Manifesto

"Well, while I’m here I’ll
do the work—-
and what’s the Work?
To ease the pain of the living.
Everything else, drunken
dumbshow."
-- Allen Ginsberg

"For Man is indeed the final product. Not because homo sap is the apogee of perfection, before which God himself gasps in awe -- 'I can do no more!' -- but because Man is an unsuccessful experiment, caught in a biological dead end and inexorably headed for extinction."
-- WSB