“Our approach to reality, our sense of reality, cannot assume that the text of nature, the book of life, is a cryptogram concealing just a single meaning. Rather, it is an expanding riddle of a mult...”

“It is as though we are understanding now what (William) Blake intuited, the senses were, in Eden, spread over the whole being. It might seem, then, that our bodies still live in Eden, but our minds...”

“His (Samuel Coleridge) dark senses were constantly in play, the frustration of them bringing illness. Weather and organic nature combined in a synaesthetic multi-media event, and this was the groun...”

“Data that comes subliminally and is acted upon will look like luck or inspiration.”

“The mystery religions were instituted in order to protect the marvels of the commonplace from those who would devalue them.”

“It is easy to be clever if you leave something important out.”

“All our focus and strength must be concentrated on striving to fulfill the will of God for our lives”

“Nothing, save the hangman's noose, concentrates the mind like piles of cash.”

“Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”

“I have loved people passionately whom I wouldn't have slept with for anything, but I think that's something else. That's friendship -- love, which can be a tremendously passionate emotion, and it c...”

“Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.”

“Sex is like an atom bomb. A potent weapon which fascinates and frightens. We're afraid to let it loose, yet we all have our finger on the button.--Zeena Schreck, Cuir Underground: Sado-Magic for Sa...”

“Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own: under the influence of music I have the illusion of feeling things I don't rea...”

“Travel opens your mind as few other things do. It is its own form of hypnotism, and I am forever under its spell.”

“A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection not an invitation for hypnosis.”