Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.

[Arab peoples] are stuck back thousands of years and they think they're going to get out with a TV set.

All abilities are paid for with disabilities. perfect health may entail the heavy toll of bovine stupidity. insight into one area involves blind spots in another.

Scientology is a model control system, a state in fact with its own courts, police, rewards and penalties.

Paranoia is just having the right information.

It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to produce very definite results. Paintings were originally formulae to make what is painted happen. Art is not an end in itself, any more than Einstein's matter-into-energy formulae is an end in itself. Like all formulae, art was originally FUNCTIONAL, intended to make things happen, the way an atom bomb happens from Einstein's formulae.

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. It is as final as the mountains: a fact. There it is. When you realize it you cannot complain.