The next stage of development, perhaps in the distant future, will be a social order under which there will be no need for the coercive power of the state.

We have long become overgrown with calluses; we no longer hear people being killed. ("X")

Along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradox—the single most worthy path of the fearless mind . . . .

Dogma, static positions, consonance - all these are obstacles to catching the disease of art, at least in its more complex forms.

If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.

Literature is painting, architecture, and music.

What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudo-intellectual masturabtion … whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time.