The media of sameness and separation represent the world in its most religious form - the structuring of the social in images.

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

Sometimes it's good to let people swim in ocean of ignorance and let them struggle to the shores of enlightenment.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Money.. Its nothing really worth squabbling about. I mean, this is what puts people six feet under!

I feel like I want to keep moving toward idiosyncracy. Personal, personal, personal.

I can't believe it. Maybe there is a God after all. Herbal supplement sales only grew 1 percent last year. The years before, it was 17 percent, 12 percent, 18 percent.

Cycling isn’t a game, it's a sport. Tough, hard and unpitying, and it requires great sacrifices. One plays football, or tennis, or hockey. One doesn’t play at cycling.

Properly speaking, we learn from those books only that we cannot judge. The author of a book that I am competent to criticise would have to learn from me.

The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been suggested is in principle capable of explaining life.

Everywhere was singing, all over the house was singing, and outside the house was alive with singing, and the very air was song.

We deal with all varieties of information. Somebody's always upset no matter what we do. We have to make a decision; otherwise there's a never-ending debate.