That I was not dueling with the king, but trying to communicate with him, was itself an incommunicable fact.

If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord." "It might to keep it open.

What good is music? None ... and that is the point. To the world and its states and armies and factories and Leaders, music says, 'You are irrelevant'; and, arrogant and gentle as a god, to the suffering man it says only, 'Listen.' For being saved is not the point. Music saves nothing. Merciful, uncaring, it denies and breaks down all the shelters, the houses men build for themselves, that they may see the sky.

Belief in the lie is the life of the lie.

George, it's impossible to correct a defective reality-orientation overnight.

There are no right answers to wrong questions.