I find that those men who are personally most polite to women, who call them angels and all that, cherish in secret the greatest contempt for them.

It is in our interests to let the police and their employers go on believing that the Underground is a conspiracy, because it increases their paranoia and their inability to deal with what is really happening. As long as they look for ringleaders and documents they will miss their mark, which is that proportion of every personality which belongs in the Underground.

There are poems about the internet and about the shipping forecast but very few by women celebrating men.

Bringing up children is not a real occupation, because children come up just the same, brought or not.

The hippie is the scion of surplus value. The dropout can only claim sanctity in a society which offers something to be dropped out of--career, ambition, conspicuous consumption. The effects of hippie sanctimony can only be felt in the context of others who plunder his lifestyle for what they find good or profitable, a process known as rip-off by the hippie, who will not see how savagely he has pillaged intricate and demanding civilizations for his own parodic lifestyle.

My knees have always been ugly.

Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.