Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.
I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.
Tangier is one of the few places left in the world where, so long as you don’t proceed to robbery, violence, or some form of crude, antisocial behavior, you can do exactly what you want.
If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
Never interfere in a girl and boy fight.
America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers.
Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible.
When you stop growing you start dying.
I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
Open your mind and let the pictures out.
I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.
Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
If after having been exposed to someone’s presence you feel as if you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.
If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.
Writers, like elephants, have long, vicious memories. There are things I wish I could forget.