I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.

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

No man, no power, can bind the action of wizardry or still the words of power. For they are the very words of Making, and one who could silence them could unmake the world.

Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings

Odonianism is anarchism. Not the bomb-in-the-pocket stuff, which is terrorism, whatever name it tries to dignify itself with, not the social-Darwinist economic 'libertarianism' of the far right; but anarchism, as prefigured in early Taoist thought, and expounded by Shelley and Kropotkin, Goldman and Goodman. Anarchism's principal target is the authoritarian State (capitalist or socialist); its principle moral-practical theme is cooperation (solidarity, mutual aid). It is the most idealistic, and to me the most interesting, of all political theories.

We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark, and fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language of the night.

Music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.