9 quotes
A cult is a religion with no political power.
It would be all one experience, with all the senses opened wide, words, music, lights, sounds, touch —
lightning.
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968)
Everything was becoming allegorical, understood by the group mind, and especially this: "You're either on the bus … or off the bus."
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968)
A sect, incidentally, is a religion with no political power.
Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine (1976)
Among other things Jonestown was an example of a definition well known to sociologists of religion: a cult is a religion with no political power.
In Our Time (1980)
At this weak, pale, tabescent moment in the history of American literature, we need a battalion, a brigade, of Zolas to head out into this wild, bizarre, unpredictable, Hog-stomping, Baroque country of ours and reclaim it as literary property.
The demolition derby is, pure and simple, a form of gladiatorial combat for our times.
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1965)
He sounded like Jean-François Revel, a French socialist writer who talks about one of the great unexplained phenomena of modern astronomy: namely, that the dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe.
Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine (1976)
...Las Vegas is the only town in the world whose skyline is made up neither of buildings, like New York, nor of trees, like Wilbraham, Massachusetts, but signs.
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1965)