Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

What is noise to the old order is harmony to the new.

Now we must learn to judge a society by its sounds.

Change is inscribed in noise faster than it transforms society.

For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible.

Man's tragedy is that when he can do something, in the end he will always do it

Global governance is just a euphemism for global government.

The first path a human being ever travels is the path that leads out of the maternal womb. Every human being's first labyrinth is that of a woman.

The only competition that matters the most in life, is the one between you and your old self.

I think this whole discussion about what is politically correct - sometimes you have to name the name. You can't hide it. Politeness is good if it's not hiding the truth.

I love everything, but I really love rock music. Incubus, Augustana, Nirvana, Chevelle, iHi-Hi-Fi, they're my really good friends.

Honestly, I was offended by the whole process.

He loves but little who can say and count in words, how much he loves.

Whatever you accept completely will take you to peace, including the acceptance that you cannot accept, that you are in resistance.

The adventure of the sun is the great natural drama by which we live, and not to have joy in it and awe of it, not to share in it, is to close a dull door on nature's sustaining and poetic spirit.

A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.

Insights and perceptions pass through the mind like fleet fireflies. Lit for an instant, then gone back into the dark.

When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.