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

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

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.

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

Nothing is everlasting, everything is transforming like a wave in the ocean.

Never waste an opportunity to tell someone you love them.

I go back there and all my friends are there when I have my golf tournament. They treat me the same way they did when I was growing up.

For ever singing as they shine, The hand that made us is divine.

True lovers are as rare as true rebels.

If you are not a writer, you will not understand the difficulties of writing. If you are not a writer, you will not know the fears and hopes of the writers you teach.

I'm so fast I could hit you before God gets the news.

The root of compassion, is compassion for oneself.

We do not need more laws . No country suffers from a shortage of laws. We need a new model .

Here everything is so wholly what I consider beautiful. In other words, there is peace here.