Mummies are dehydrated & they long for the blood of living words.

The dullard finds even wine tasteless, while the sorcerer is intoxicated by the mere sight of water.

Ten minutes in a video store should convince any impartial observer that we live in a police state of consciousness, far more pervasive than the Nazis.

If rulers refuse to consider poems as crimes, then someone must commit crimes that serve the function of poetry, or texts that possess the resonance of terrorism.

Nature has no Laws — only habits.

Art tells gorgeous lies that come true.

Sorcery: the systematic cultivation of enhanced consciousness or non-ordinary awareness & its deployment in the world of deeds & objects to bring about desired results.

To say that 'I will not be free till all humans (or all sentient creatures) are free' is simply to cave in to a kind of nirvana-stupor, to abdicate our humanity, to define ourselves as losers.

In short, it occurred to me that perhaps the only possible avant garde is the avant garden.

Words belong to those who use them only till someone else steals them back.

the dullard sees no eros in fine champagne; the sorcerer can fall intoxicated on a glass of water

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

If it’s over, then don’t let the past screw up the rest of your life.

The first 10 days of a cattle drive were the most critical, as a stampede was most likely when the cattle were closest to their habitual home.

Old memories are very easy to get except that once you write about something you've destroyed it.

If the legislation helps people improve their lives, then that's great because that's the ultimate goal of all of this.

You've got to spend a little money to make a little money.

Food! Oh my god, I love food. Sugar makes me come alive.

The past shouts at you, the ugly words or actions echo down across the years.

The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to success.

Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.