Art and Entertainment are the same thing, in that the more deeply and genuinely entertaining a work is, the better art it is. To imply that Art is something heavy and solemn and dull, and Entertainment is modest but jolly and popular, is neo-Victorian idiocy at its worst.

You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it.

It's a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you've been to all the places you don't need to be.

Primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to unbuild walls.

Progress means nothing to presence.