"fortunately all governments will fall the only ones which won't fall are the good ones and the good ones don't yet exist"

"I do not wish to escape to myself, I wish to escape from myself. I wish to obliterate my consciousness and my knowledge of independent existence, my guilts, my secretiveness."

"I am a mirror, and I am a reflection, and I am a shadow, and I am a light, and I am a sound, and I am a silence."

"Moloch! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness! Ashcans and unobtainable dollars! Children screaming under the stairways! Boys sobbing in armies! Old men weeping in the parks!"

"I'm a teacher, but I'm not a professor."