“danger is a biologic necessity, like dreams. if you face death, for that time, for the period ofdirect confrontation, you are immortal.”

“America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers.”

“The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set-up by the non-dreamers”

“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.”

“Danger is a very rare commodity in these times, monopolized by intelligence agencies and stuntmen.”

“Death needs time for what it kills to grow in.”

“I am trying like Klee, to create something that will have a life of its own, that can put me in real danger, a danger which I willingly take on myself.”