As you know, I’ve been sick and stupid for a long time. I have a lot to make up for,
As long as there are fuses, no walls are safe. As long as every wall is threatened, the world can happen. Outlaws are can openers in the supermarket of life.
A book no more contains reality than a clock contains time.
On a number of occasions this book has made reference to magic, and each time you've shaken your head, muttering such criticisms as What does he mean by 'magic' anyhow? It's embarrassing to find a gro...
There was no burger so soggy that he would not eat it. No tequila so mean that he would not drink it. No car so covered with birdshit and rust that he would not drive it around town (and if it were a...
It is questionable, for that matter, whether success is an adequate response to life. Success can eliminate as many options as failure.
Those who shun the whimsy of things will experience rigor mortis before death.
We, with our propensity for murder, torture, slavery, rape, cannibalism, pillage, advertising jingles, shag carpets, and golf, how could we be seriously considered as the perfection of a four-billion-...
We've produced a generation of spiritual panhandlers, begging for coins of wisdom, banging like bums on every closed door...if an old man moves into a shack or a cave and lets his beard grow, people w...
We do know that she’s compassionate and eccentric—an excellent combination in a human being;
True freedom was an internal condition not subject to the vagaries of politics. Freedom could not be owned. Therefore, it could not be appropriated.
Salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb.
Not only is religion divisive and oppressive, it is also a denial of all that is divine in people; it is a suffocation of the soul.
Like two r's trapped in a spanish songbook, tilli and max lurked in their shoebox castle, waiting to be rolled.
Although surely she realized that space is merely a device to prevent everything from being in the same spot.
Why, Tanuki grumbled, would they fell trees but leave men standing? Trees are a damn sight more useful than people, and everything in the world knows that but people.
Who knows how to make love stay?Tell love you are going to the Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheesecake, and if love stays, it can have half.
When two people meet and fall in love, there's a sudden rush of magic. Magic is just naturally present then. We tend to feed on that gratuitous magic without striving to make any more. One day we wake...
Tunnel vision is caused by an optic fungus that multiplies when the brain is less energetic than the ego. It is complicated by exposure to politics.
To the domesticated, nomads were an unwelcome reminder of instinct suppressed, liberty compromised, and control unimplemented.