Our consciousness, a startling outgrowth of the universe, is possibly its most important part, the fraction of existence that can think, feel, marvel at itself.

While a truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power.

There is no future. There is no past. Do you see? Time is simultaneous, an intricately structured jewel that humans insist on viewing one edge at a time, when the whole design is visible in every facet.

Things are tough all over, cupcake, an' it rains on the just an' the unjust alike...except in California.

I believe that magic is art, and that art, whether that be music, writing, sculpture, or any other form, is literally magic. Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images, to achieve changes in consciousness… Indeed to cast a spell is simply to spell, to manipulate words, to change peoples consciousness, and this is why I believe that an artist or writer is the closest thing in the contemporary world to a shaman.

To some degree Satanism is purely a kind of disease of Christianity. You've got to really be Christian to believe in Satan.

In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in the universe.