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What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.

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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, "I am not paid to listen to this drivel - you are a terminal fool!" Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.
The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
To concern yourself with surface political conflicts is to make the mistake of the bull in the ring, you are charging the cloth. That is what politics is for, to teach you the cloth. Just as the bullfighter teaches the bull, teaches him to follow, obey the cloth.
You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.