Life is a mask through which the universe expresses itself.

Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.

Can you collect chaos? Not collecting, that is the ultimate gathering. What can you gather without gathering yourself.

Most civilisation is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead to bravery. You restrain the will. You regulate the appetites. You fence in the horizons. You make a law for every movement. You deny the existence of chaos. You teach even the children to breathe slowly. You tame.

There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

Absolute prediction is completion . . . is death!

What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises—no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting.