pity and charity may be at root an attempt to propitiate the dark powers that have not touched us yet.
Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.
I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.
There is something haunting in the light of the moon.
Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.
There's many scripting languages in the world, Perl is a little bit special because it is based more on some ideas from the way natural languages work.
The ideal is to put on shows where, if you go into the same space again, you don't remember ever having been there before, because where you were was a space that only existed that one time, created by the music.