Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.

To be seen is the ambition of ghosts, and to be remembered is the ambition of the dead.

The boundary line between self and external world bears no relation to reality; the distinction between ego and world is made by spitting out part of the inside, and swallowing in part of the outside.

I perceive a necessary gap between seeing and being. I would not be able to have said certain things if I had been under the obligation to unify the word and the deed. As it is I can let my words reach out and net impossible things - things that are impossible for me to do. And this is a way to pay the price for saying or seeing things.

The insane do not share the normal prejudice in favor of external reality.

History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration.