Such is the first poet, he is young, he is cynical.
– Victor Hugo, “Preface” to Cromwell

[Disneyland is] meant to be an infantile world, in order to make us believe that the adults are elsewhere, in the “real” world, and to conceal the fact that real childishness is everywhere, particularly among those adults who go there to act the child in order to foster illusions of their real childishness.
– Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulations

Like a bird on the wire Like a drunk in a midnight choir I have tried in my way to be free
– Leonard Cohen, “Bird on a Wire”

I’ve lived history. I’ve made history, and I know I’ll have my place in history. That’s not egoism.
– Hon. John Diefenbaker, MacLean’s, 1973

If the children don’t grow up Our bodies get bigger but our hearts get torn up We’re just a million little gods causing rain storms Turning every good thing to rust
– Arcade Fire, “Wake Up”

All those people drinking lover’s spit They sit around and clean their face with it You know it’s time that we grow old and do some shit
– Broken Social Scene, “Lover’s Spit”