Harry Haller

For those of you who know me:
...you people know who you are. You know I am one to draw inspiration and optimism from anywhere and everywhere. I'm thankful everyday to surround myself with great people. I can't stop thanking those who have influenced me so greatly. My only hope is that I can to do the same to you. Thanks for everything.
"This page contains the records left us by a man whom, according to the expression he often used himself, we called the Steppenwolf."
"But the worst of it is that it is just the contentment that I cannot endue. After a short time it fills me with irrepressible hatred and nausea. In desperation I have to escape and throw myself on the road to pleasure, or, if that cannot be, on the road to pain." -the Steppenwolf
"It is time to come to your senses. You are to live and to learn to laugh. You are to learn to listen to the cursed radio music of life and to reverence the spirit behind it and to laugh at its distoritions. So there you are. More will not be asked of you." -Mozart to the Steppenwolf
"But let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious." -Jack Kerouac "The Dharma Bums"
"What does it matter: Like the ants that have nothing to do bug dig all day I have nothing to do but do what I want and be kind and remain nevertheless uninfluenced by imaginary judgements and pary for the light." -Jack Kerouac "The Dharma Bums"