Only through the group, I realised — through sharing the suffering of the group — could the body reach that height of existence that the individual alone could never attain. Sun and Steel (1968)
Words are a medium that reduces reality to abstraction for transmission to our reason, and in their power to corrode reality inevitably lurks the danger that the words will be corroded too. Sun and Steel (1968)
The most appropriate type of daily life for me was a day-by-day world destruction; peace was the most difficult and abnormal state to live in. Sun and Steel (1968)
In its essence, any art that relies on words makes use of their ability to eat away — of their corrosive function — just as etching depends on the corrosive power of nitric acid. Sun and Steel (1968)