A biography for Larry Harveyhasn’t been written yet.
“We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other.”
“Burning Man is like a big family picnic. Would you sell things to one another at a family picnic? No, you'd share things.”
“We didn't worry about getting a venue or asking permission. We started out guerrilla. We were illegal, going down to the beach to burn this thing.”
“I think it's a little much to expect the organisation to solve the problem of racial parity. We do see a fast-increasing influx of Asians, black folks. I actually see black folks out here, unlike some of our liberal critics.”
“Black Rock gives us all a chance to heal, to become ourselves.”
“People craved orientation. It was a very basic primal need. So we could create a boundary that served lots of functional purposes and especially create boundaries that people would camp along.”