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The magician to some degree is trying to drive him or herself mad in a controlled setting, within controlled laws.
Magic and art tend to share a lot of the same language. They both talk about evocation, invocation, and conjuring.
When I hear alcoholics talk about having their demons, I think that they're probably absolutely literally correct.
Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate.
To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.
Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.
It doesn't do you any service to demonize any group of people. It's much better to try and understand from the inside.
Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings.
Who imprisoned me here? Who keeps me here? Who can release me? Who's controlling and constraining my life except...me?
Culture is just a shambling zombie that repeats what it did in life; bits of it drop off, and it doesn't appear to notice.
To some degree Satanism is purely a kind of disease of Christianity. You've got to really be Christian to believe in Satan.
It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.
Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.
The ending is nearer than you think, and it is already written. All that we have left to choose is the correct moment to begin.
Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.
Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.
You see, there's the way things seemed and then there's the way things were and one is so often the total reverse of the other.
No one will ever forget that night, and what it meant for this country. But I will never forget the man and what he meant to me.
The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later.
London has been used as the emblematic English city, but it's far from representative of what life in England is actually about.
Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. Forever.
The Conservative Party is a religion in that they are bound together by belief. Almost any organization has its religious aspects.
I think that the Occupy movement is, in one sense, the public saying that they should be the ones to decide who's too big to fail.
I'm the idea of the human imagination, which, when you think about it, is the only thing we can really be certain ISN'T imaginary.
Please don't worry. It's a psychological complaint, common amongst ex-librarians. You see, she thinks she's a coffee table edition.
...My point is, I went crazy. When I saw what a black, awful joke the world was. I went crazy as a coot! I admit it! Why can't you?
All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day.
Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose.
Once a man has seen society's black underbelly, he can never turn his back on it. Never pretend, like you do, that it doesn't exist.
It was Kovacs who said "Mother" then, muffled under latex. It was Kovacs who closed his eyes. It was Rorschach who opened them again.
Real life is messy, inconsistent, and it's seldom when anything ever really gets resolved. It's taken me a long time to realize that.
I'm not a very shy person. I'm just somebody who's got a lot of work and who doesn't like to parade himself in new celebrity contexts.
I was kind of a selfish child, who always wanted things his way, and I've kind of taken that over into my relationship with the world.
I still can't believe it . . . him comin' here everyday, nobody realizin'. Still, that's life: lotta stuff happens under the waterline.
As far as I can see, it's not important that we have free will, just as long as we have the illusion of free will to stop us going mad.
I've never watched any of the adaptations of my books. I've never wanted to, and there's absolutely no chance of me doing so in the future.
There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world inside our mind, which is just as important.
In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in the universe.
A lot of the critique of our growing mechanization was actually at its strongest, and arguably at its most perceptive, during the late '60s.
Remember, remember the fifth of November of gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gun powder treason should ever be forgot.
Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining.
That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics.
Television and movies have short-circuited reality. I don't think a lot of people are entirely clear on what is real and what is on the screen.
It has occurred to me that the superhero really only originates in America. That seems to be the only country that has produced this phenomenon.
Famously, there's not really anywhere to go after nihilism. It's not progressing toward anything, it's a statement of outrage, however brilliant.
Money's fine if it enables you to enjoy your life and to be useful to other people. But as something that is a means to an end, no, it's useless.
While the revolution will be certainly televised, it strikes me that there is a strong possibility that the revolution will also be crowd-funded.
I've never studied anything formally. I was excluded from school at the age of 17, so I am an autodidact, which is a word that I have taught myself.
The more I look at most of the art movements, it's all occultism, when you get down to it. The Surrealists were openly talking about being magicians.
I am watching the stars, admiring their complex trajectories through space and time. I am trying to give a name to the force that set them in motion.