Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
Changes... can only be effected by alterations in the original. The only thing not prerecorded in a prerecorded universe are the prerecordings themselves. The copies can only repeat themselves word for word. A virus is a copy. You can pretty it up, cut it up, scramble it - it will reassemble in the same form.
The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing.
I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.
You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.
Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary.
The face of evil is always the face of total need.
In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
My relationships with my cats has saved me from a deadly, pervasive ignorance.
Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of decaying metal. Yet almost without exception, the wretched idiot inhabitants of our benighted planet would gulp down this radioactive excrement if it were offered.
Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller.
A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering.
Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy.
Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.
Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.
Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him.
I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction. Why can't we have advertisements with beautiful words and beautiful images?
The only possible ethic is to do what one wants to do.
Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm?
