...only drugs make you feel as good as people in TV ads appear to be.

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

Belief isn't supposed to make sense, at least not all the time. In that, it finds its power. It gets to creep up on you and carry you forward. Until you can carry yourself again.

They were completely alone on the long stretch of country road and there was no one else to share the moment with them.

All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.

The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.

Of all the jobs I've had, sliming fish was pretty good preparation for life in Washington.

Pity you can't attach an extra arm to your [broom], Malfoy. Then it could catch the Snitch for you.

There is no success without a successor.

He'd pulled back a little, just with his lower half, and I was afraid the scorch in my cheeks would set fire to the rest of me, because I an idea why. Wow. Oh wow.

Nobody was interested in me before I bought the Nets.

Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.