The mission of the artist in an over-technologi zed society, is to call the old magic back to life.

To an artist a metaphor is as real as a dollar.

Christianity is merely a system for turning priestesses into handmaidens, queens into concubines, and goddesses into muses.

Comedy is deemed inferior to tragedy primarily because of the social prevalence of narcissistic pathology. In other words people who are too self important to laugh at their own frequently ridiculous behavior have vested interest in gravity because it supports their illusions of grandosity.

We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth.

You are an ignorant schoolgirl. You think civilization is a good thing.

The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent, not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious.