It is only because the world looks on his talent with such a frightening indifference that the artist is compelled to make his talent important.

In order for this to happen, your entire frame of reference will have to change, and you will be forced to surrender many things that you now scarcely know you have.

Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.

Allegiance, after all, has to work two ways; and one can grow weary of an allegiance which is not reciprocal.

If we do not now dare everything, the fulfillment of that prophecy, re-created from the Bible in song by a slave, is upon us: God gave Noah the rainbow sign. No more water, fire next time.

Experience is a private, very largely speechless affair.

Freaks are called freaks and are treated as they are treated – in the main, abominably – because they are human beings who cause to echo, deep within us, our most profound terrors and desires.