Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.

If you are asking me what the individual can do right now, in a political sense, I'd have to say he can't do all that much. Speaking for myself, I am more concerned with the transformation of the individual, which to me is much more important than the so-called political revolution.

Like Spain, I am bound to the past.

When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.

I had not taken a bath in a year nor changed my clothes or removed them except to stick a needle every hour in the fibrous grey wooden flesh of heroin addiction. I did absolutely nothing.

You see, control can never be a means to any practical end...It can never be a means to anything but more control...like junk.

Nothing is true, everything is permitted.