Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.

Film spectators are quiet vampires.

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are...There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.

That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

What have they done to the earth? What have they done to our fair sister? Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn And tied her with fences and dragged her down

Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain.

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.