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

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

It's amazing what happens when you stick yourself in a place and let things take their more or less natural course.

The more haste, ever the worst speed.

As long as you make an identity for yourself out of pain, you cannot be free of it.

He's true to God who's true to man.

One can buy anything with money except morality.

I've paid my dues. I've earned your votes. Send me.

It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes.

Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then prohibit and abolish women?

If we knew what people had been through, their sorrow and suffering, we would not be so quick to judge.

People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.