Christianity is merely a system for turning priestesses into handmaidens, queens into concubines, and goddesses into muses.
Champagne was discovered by a Catholic monk, said Bernard. Took one swallow and burst out of his cellar yelling, 'I'm drinking stars, I'm drinking stars!' Tequila was invented by a bunch of brooding I...
Beer's nice for being glad and dizzy, and sometimes for the mystery and stuff, but the happy that comes out of a beer can is not like the real happy you got to make in your heart.
At the meeting of our lips, peacocks went into hiding, elephants suffered memory loss, camels developed a maddening thirst, and dinosaurs long thought to be extinct turned up on the evening news.
Are you to be an individual, a trespasser in territory none else has had the wit or nerve to explore, or just another troublesome mosquito to be swatted by the authorities?
April. Spring was on the land like an itch. The whole countryside seemed to be scratching itself awake—lazily, luxuriously, though occasionally scratching so hard its nails hit bone, that old cold cal...
An old Ukrainian proverb warns, A tale that begins with a beet will end with the devil. That is a risk we have to take.
Among the Haida Indians of the Pacific Northwest, the verb for making poetry is the same as the verb to breathe.
This lonely, uncompromising, obsessive tug-of-war with presumed reality, this is what art is all about.
There are countless ways to live upon this tremendous sphere in mirth and good health, and probably only one way - the industrialized, urbanized, herding way - to live here stupidly, and man has hit u...
The professor had refused surgery for the rupturing aorta that was wiping his personal equation off the blackboard of life. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially, Einstein had told his physicia...
The greatest men that ever live pass away unknown. they put forth no claims for themselves, establish no schools of systems in their name. they never create or stir but just melt down into love
The concert had energized me in a peculiar and powerful way. It had jimmied the lock on my language box and smashed the last of my literary inhibitions.
The Impressionists were able to lead the viewer into mixing color in his or her own eye.
That no matter how valid, how vital, one’s belief system might be, one undermines that system and ultimately negates it when one gets rigid and dogmatic in one’s adherence to it.
Red hair is caused by sugar and lust.
Every time they substitute an all-purpose, sloppy slang word for the words that would accurately describe an emotion or a situation, it lowers their reality orientations, pushes them farther from shor...
You risked your life, but what else have you ever risked? Have you risked disapproval? Have you ever risked economic security? Have you ever risked a belief? I see nothing particularly courageous abou...
You know what the game of golf is, don't you? It's basketball for people who can't jump and chess for people who can't think.
You have taught us much. Come with us and join the movement.This movement of yours, does it have slogans? inquired the Chink.Right on! they cried. And they quoted him some.Your movement, does it have...