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

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.

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.

Every soul craves to fill the void.

[Hezbollah forces] cannot exist all over Syria anyway, for many reasons, but they exist on the borders.

The plain people, hereafter as in the past, will continue to make their own language, and the best that grammarians can do is to follow after it, haltingly, and not often with much insight into it.

I run in Central Park as the sun comes up. Some may mistake it for walking, but I swear I am running. I could not do it without my iPod.

America is the most creative country and the most powerful government in the world.

I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world.

Art is not just to show life as it is, but to show life as it should be.

Better Dancing makes Better Lovers

The next 10 years could be the most important in the next 10,000.