Only the poor can create art.

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.

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

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.

It was like I couldn't think of any words. Now I can think of about nine million." "How many words are in the English language?""Not the point.

There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag.

The "kingdom of heaven" to which he referred was the state of God-consciousness, not the beautiful astral heavens that most people visualize, where virtuous souls go after death.

And when the time comes to replace the O2 I have today, maybe my next machine will run Linux.

Steadiness is coming up short 19 times and succeeding the twentieth.

I don't think anyone gets married thinking that they will get divorced.

Nothing is written stone, child. Even if it were, the stones can be shattered

I like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life.

The casinos brought lots of revenue and jobs to our community. We've seen lots of benefits from those tax dollars.

I am no friend of present-day Christianity, though its Founder was sublime.