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.

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

No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.

Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.

England has the most sordid literary scene I've ever seen. They all meet in the same pub. This guy's writing a foreword for this person. They all have to give radio programs, they have to do all this just in order to scrape by. They're all scratching each other's backs.

Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.