"The entertainment industry makes this [phantasmagoria of distraction] easier by elevating the person to the level of the commodity. He surrenders to its manipulations while enjoying his alienation from himself and others. The enthronement of the commodity, with its lustre of distraction…is consistent with the split between utopian and cynical elements."

"My writing is quantum writing. Do you know of the quantum bullet? The quantum bullet, when it's fired, leaves not one hole but two. That's how my writing is."

"In America today there are many “colored” people who are designated “black” or “African.” Whereas they are mixed with the West—with the so-called whites who represent the West—in blood and spirit. This is a fateful, hidden matter though we do not see it as such. It may be partly responsible for deadly, one-sided polarizations in cultures around the globe that see themselves similarly locked into racial investitures."

"“Quantum” brings a hand in fiction that challenges all conventional fixtures of control within the psyche of art."

"I am not suggesting that racial admixture is a solution to the world’s grave problems. I am suggesting, however, that a freedom of diverse parts in Nature to blend into variant universals should be open in fiction and art."

"So I feel that this is an encouragement to other writers in the region to persist in the their work, even if they feel that what they are doing is not popular, because in the long run it may tell on their behalf."

"There is no economic solution to the ills of the world until the arts of originality […] open the partialities and biases of tradition in ways that address the very core of our pre-possessions."

"Once cannot tame the voices of the flute, voices of such uncanny lightness yet miracle of being that they are able to tilt the two rivers, the visible and the invisible rivers, into diagrammatic discourse; and in so doing to create the four banks of the river of space into a ladder upon which the curved music of the flute ascends. Those banks are dislodged upwards into rungs in the ladder and into stepping stones into original space."

"It is not only the gulf between religions and cultures that plaques us today. There is the widening gulf between the rich and the poor, the world of plenty and the world of famine. We may think we can make a good patch work or mechanical arrangement to ameliorate such a division. But this I feel is an illusion. There is no economic solution to the ills of the world until the arts of originality - arts that are driven by mysterious strangeness - open the partialities and bias of tradition in ways that address the very core of our pre-possessions.""

"The solid morning mist began to disintegrate and dark shoulders of rock appeared in the water giving the illusion of swimmers, reaching from bank to bank, dispersing from themselves wreaths of snakes with imperceptible strokes."

"(Breaking) ritual habit, ritual normality that seals our eyes and ears…you can advance, see things you never saw before, move out of boundaries that have been a prison."

"The flute sings of an ancient riverbead one hundred fathoms deep, far below the Potaro River that runs to the Waterfall. Two rivers then. The visible Potaro runs to the Waterfall. The invisible stream of the river of the dead runs far below, far under our knees. The flute tells of the passage of the drowned river of the dead and the river of the living are one quantum stream possessed of four banks."

"Cross-culturality differs radically from multiculturality. There is no creative and re-creative sharing of dimensions in multiculturality."

"The arts have to be pursued irrespective of what people think."

"To transform a grimace into a sound sounds impossible, yet it is possible to transform a vision into music, to go outside an enslaved personality, to become impersonal by transforming into sand, into water, into light."

"A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams."

"There can be no forced inspiration."

"Without pleasure there is no sight or measure."

"Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing."

"Total knowledge is annihilation of the desire to see, to touch, to feel the world sensed only through senses and immune to the knowledge without feeling."

"Great poets are great copy editors."

"Every scent is the sun’s scent."

"The eyesight for an eagle is what thought is to a man."

"With open eyes, you watch; with closed eyes, you see."

"While the world sleeps, darkness and silence are awake."

"When within yourself you find the road, the right road will open."

"Description is a story well told already; experience offers truth."

"There is a moonlight note in the Moonlight Sonata; there is a thunder note in an angry sky."

"There is no born lover, there is no born Don Juan, for we are all lovers."

"Life and death merge in greatness."

"While gazing at myself from yourself, I was beautiful."

"He will understand when it is too late that it is easier to love."

"They are both spectacular, life and death."

"Devil and God are two sides of the same face."

"What you gain here, you lose on the other side."

"From one bell all the bells toll."

"We don’t know anything about silent sages, buried knowledge, the eye of the mute poet, serene seers, yet how many talkative destroyers, prophets and ideologues, teachers and beautifiers there are on the other side."

"Nothing is made, Nothing disappears. The same changes, At the same places, Never stopping. The foundation and the roof With the world between Dreaming."

"A word only writes its night and rides its dream."

"Heavenly bodies are nests of invisible birds."

"In an endless silence even screams sound silent."

"In every moment the past is born and the present flows into the future, taking the moment that already passed."

"It is vain futility to analyze the algebra of time."

"It is futile to spend time telling stories about the fleetness of each day."

"From what you didn’t say, lies that you did say."

"Color is the overpowering of black; white – the final victory over black."

"Through a forest of challenges, thought moves and squirms, resisting beguilements; if it endures, it emerges pure."

"The world cannot be translated; it can only be dreamed of and touched."

"Although all days are equally long regardless of the season, some days are long not only seasonally but by rewards they offer."

"Long ago we conquered our passions Looking at ourselves in the mirror of eternity."