Nostalgia is masochism and masochism is something masochists love to share.

The real technology -behind all our other technologies- is language. It actually creates the world our consciousness lives in.

The peasants of all lands recognize power and they salute it, whether it's good or evil.

How did you fall in love with New Orleans? At once, madly. Looking back, sometimes I think it was predestined.

Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s.

These are the poems of a traveler and a lover who feels both the terror of time passing and the consolation of eternity. From such tension spring lovely poetic objects, ready for intelligent use.

It is the job of the market to turn the base material of our emotions into gold.

There is no ´Complete Idiots Guide to Creationism,´ but perhaps one is not needed.

It's still a mystery to me exactly how I learned the language. [But] I was 19 years old and I had very urgent things to tell girls.

In the grand collage that is Dada, past and future are equally usable.

The evaporation of 4 million who believe in this crap would leave the world a better place.

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

I think a lot of actors need validation. If you see truly amazing actors perform, they expose themselves to such an incredible degree. You can really see their pain.

Above all things, I delight in listening to stories, and sometimes in telling them.

Beer is prose. Wine is poetry.

Marriage is a religious and state issue.

The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.

I dislike clocks with second-hands; they cut up life into too small pieces.

I started out as a drummer, and now play with a back-to-basics rock band called the 'Luddites.' I'm happiest when I'm behind the kit.

There's something to be said for being classically trained on piano, but not having your whole makeup be tied to one instrument.

I've always felt that I was talking to one person. But I've never envisioned who that one person is.