“Even the Middle Ages, which condemned and punished animals in due form, was in this way much closer to them than we are. They held them to be guilty: which was a way of honoring them. We take them ...”

“What is man if the signs that predate him have such power? A human race has to invent sacrifices equal to the natural cataclysmic order that surrounds it.”

“Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays cosily tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from ...”

“The media represents world that is more real than reality that we can experience. People lose the ability to distinguish between reality and fantasy. They also begin to engage with the fantasy with...”

“Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.”

“Take your desires for reality!" can be understood as the ultimate slogan of power.”

“If there must be madness, something may be said for having it on a heroic scale”

“Keep out of this," Lucian said. "I'm not smiting anybody.""You're showing mercy." Catch-a-Tick nodded. "That's heroic, too. But not as good as smiting.”

“What a great thing, to be loved! What a greater thing still, to love! The heart becomes heroic though passionif no one loved, the sun would go out.”

“But love's a malady without a cure.”

“One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.”

“My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.”

“Timelessness is realizing that everything that has ever or will ever happen already exists simultaneously in another reality or dimension.”

“Understand me. Im not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.”

“A line has no parallel because it is itself the parallel.”