Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

Our task, then always, is to challenge the apparent forms of reality-that is, the fixed manner and values of the few, and to struggle with it until it reveals its mad, vari-implicated chaos, its false face, and so on until it surrenders its insight, its truth.

To hell with being ashamed of what you liked.

...and yet I am what they think I am.

There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.

I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of it all, I find that I love.

In those days it was either live with music or die with noise, and we chose rather desperately to live.