The more you know, the more you see

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.

Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.

For myself, as, no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation we desired was simultaneously liberation from a certain political and economic system and liberation from a certain system of morality. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.

Peace is a necessary condition of spirituality, no less than an inevitable result of it.

When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.

The poet's place, it seems to me, is with the Mr. Hydes of human nature.