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

The last possible deed is that which defines perception itself, an invisible golden chord that connects us: illegal dancing in the courthouse corridors.

Don't take crucial decisions when you are depressed or filled with anger, because then the decision is not made by you.

We all want a world without war, without conflict, without human suffering.

As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the thing that is left us in a bad time.

He has been known by many names: Lucifer, Beelzabub, Belial, the Prince of Lies, Satan, and at a party once an obnoxious drunk kept calling him "Dude."

Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition.

Get out of control, but appear under control. It?s not bad to alarm other people, though ? it?s good for them.

I no longer limit myself.

We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.

Care not what they say about the color of your skin let the brilliant light of your soul blind them.

Take stands, take risks, take responsibility.