Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention.

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.

Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.

This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.

I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.

There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.

I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous.

Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm?

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.