All aesthetic judgment is really cultural evaluation.

It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.

The only interesting ideas are heresies

I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting.

All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation.

I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path.

The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes. It is equivalent to a sense of abusing the present.

No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down--impossible for them to stop reading it, word after word. You have to keep them from closing the book.

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

How can we say that the Church wishes to bring us back into the Dark Ages? The Church was the only thing that ever brought us out of them.

Life is great-I wouldn't know what I'd do without it.

Throughout the entire course of history, warfare is always changing.

We're trying to impress ourselves in a way. That's why we keep trying to do things better... we never get satisfied.

There are some forms of stupidity that one must be highly intelligent and educated to achieve.

I remember pogs and sticky hands. I remember both. I wanted to get into pogs. I remember it was, like, all of a sudden it was here, then gone.

I am never five minutes into stripping the clutter from my life before I start running into the clutter that is my life.

I sort of see [cannabis] as the pilot light of Gian consciousness.