We must find out what words are and how they function. They become images when written down, but images of words repeated in the mind and not of the image of the thing itself.

There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.

I was thinking about New Mexico, and I rounded the corner in New York, and there was a New Mexico license plate: "New Mexico, land of enchantment."

All political organizations tend to function like a machine, to eliminate the unpredictable factor of affect - emotion.

I like the shaman very much, the way he was crying.

The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client.

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.