The hero surviving his own murder, his own suicide, his own addiction, surviving his own disappearance from the scene

Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.

I am neither romantic nor a visionary, and that is my weakness and perhaps my power; at any rate it is one difference. In less romantic and visionary terms, I am a Jew, (with powers of introspection and eclecticism attendant, perhaps.) But I am alien to your natural grace, to the spirit which you would know as a participator in America.

What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!--and you, Garcia Lorca, what were you doing down by the watermelons?

Who can live with this Consciousness and not wake frightened at sunrise?

Recent history is the record of one vast conspiracy to impose one level of mechanical consciousness on mankind.

Tell your secrets. [In reply to the question "How does one become a prophet?"]