Ultimate novelty must be a situation where all boundaries are dissolved.

One way of assessing the toxicity of a drug is how do you feel the next day?

A great turning point is in the offing. The world is changing. It's changed before, but not for a long time in our lives, not since before our lives. But now it's changing, and there are many many possibilities.

Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.

Not to know one's true identity is to be a mad, disensouled thing — a golem. And, indeed, this image, sick-eningly Orwellian, applies to the mass of human beings now living in the high-tech industrial democracies. Their authenticity lies in their ability to obey and follow mass style changes that are conveyed through the media. Immersed in junk food, trash media, and cryp-tofascist politics, they are condemned to toxic lives of low awareness. Sedated by the prescripted daily television fix, they are a living dead, lost to all but the act of consuming.

It's meanings that we need to coax into our lives.

Closure is a neurotic and infantile demand to make upon reality, other people, or language.