The perfect fascist state needs to operate in conditions of perpetual warfare. Have you ever noticed how the world has been in constant crisis since World War II?
Performing magic has a lot to do with the arrangement of apparent coincidences and providing pathways along which desires can travel, or, to put it in more basic terms, there’s little point in sigilizing for a lottery win if you don’t also buy a lottery ticket.
The big problem is time. I don’t have enough of it to do all the things I think about doing.
I’m the evil mastermind behind the scenes. I’m the wicked puppeteer who pulls the strings and makes you dance. I’m your writer.
If this book has made any point clear, I hope it’s that things don’t have to be real to be true. Or vice versa.
And that’s why people read comics, to get away from the way life works, which is quite cruel and unheroic and ends in death.
Your character that you create in your writing not only represents who you are, but also represents a number of people who you’ve met along the way.
The first light had cast the first shadow.
I should say I am far more cleverer than any of the people who put me here. As a matter of fact, I could leave any time I wanted. It’s only a doll house after all. Anyway, I don’t mind. I like dolls. Particularly the live ones.
And when it’s all done, when there’s no one left you’ll come back for me. And tell me who I am and why I have to do what I do. And explain ‘Eternity.’ You’ll come back.
Why did you make it so hard for me? I’d rather empty the ocean with a sieve. I do it for you. Or count the grains of sand on every beach. All for you. There are so many people, so many countries. But I have time. All the time in the world. Eternity.
All I know is that you won’t come back until they’re all dead. ‘Eternity.’ Every last one of them. Every man. Every woman. Every child. Global massacre. I dream about that day. A planet of corpses.
Laugh and the world laughs with you!
Before it was a Bomb, the Bomb was an Idea. Superman, however, was a Faster, Stronger, Better Idea.
The moon is so beautiful. It’s a big silver dollar, flipped by God. And it landed scarred side up, see? So He made the world.
The only thing that made me, or any of us, special was that no one in the whole of history would ever see the universe exactly the same way any other of us saw it.
I will rise from the darkness, shining like the morning star. Illuminated woman am I.
Consciousness, rather than being something that we have, is something we participate in.
Truth speaks best in the language of poetry and symbolism, I think.
It’s mostly just you have to convince yourself that there’s nothing else in the room but John Lennon and suddenly things start John Lennon-ing!