“[T]ruth is considered profane, and only illusion is sacred”
“I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.”
“There are not two histories, one profane and one sacred, 'juxtaposed' or 'closely linked.' Rather there is only one human destiny.”
“...what is art to the dilettante but the initiation of the sacred few to the exclusion of the profane crowd?...”
“To find that which is most sacred in this world, look to that which is most violently profaned.”
“No single step in the persuit of enlightenment should ever be considered sacred; only the search was.”