How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.

You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

Happinessis a byproduct of function. Those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.

Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary.

All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war. "There's no place for impractical dreamers around here," that's what they always say. "Your writing activities will be directed, kindly stop horsing around." "As for the smoking of marijuana, it is the exploitation for the workers." Both favor alcohol and are against pot.

A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.

His whole being radiates a pure, wild sweetness, flitting through night woods with little melodious cries, on some cryptic errand. There is also an aura of doom and sadness about this trusting little creature. He has been abandoned many times over the centuries, left to die in cold city alleys, in hot noon vacant lots, pottery shards, nettles, crumbled mud walls. Many times he has cried for help in vain.