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So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.

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

Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it "creative observation." Creative viewing.

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

So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.