This is. And thou art. There is no safety. There is no end. The word must be heard in silence. There must be darkness to see the stars. The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss.

To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.

When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.

The pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and general acceptance, sexual pornography, in this Puritan land of ours. Exploiting the apocalypse, selling the holocaust, is a pornography. For the ultimate selling job on ultimate violence one must read those works of fiction issued by our government as manuals of civil defense, in which you learn that there's nothing to be afraid of if you've stockpiled lots of dried fruit.

You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.

The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.

The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.