In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies - were not only ac...
Religion is a paramount contributor to human misery. It is not merely the opium of the masses, it is the cyanide.
Switters was actually quite fond of Seattle's weather, and not merely because of it's ambivalence. He liked it's subtle, muted qualities and the landscape that those qualities encouraged if not engend...
The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being.
Among our egocentric sad-sacks, despair is as addictive as heroin and more popular than sex, for the single reason that when one is unhappy one gets to pay a lot of attention to oneself. Misery become...
Omphaloskepsis,
Whenever a state or an individual cited 'insufficient funds' as an excuse for neglecting this important thing or that, it was indicative of the extent to which reality had been distorted by the abstra...
The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind.
There are people in this world who can wear whale masks and people who cannot, and the wise know to which group they belong.
Humans have evolved to their relatively high state by retaining the immature characteristics of their ancestors. Humans are the most advanced of mammals – although a case could be made for the dolphin...
As long as a population can be induced to believe in a supernatural hereafter, it can be oppressed and controlled. People will put up with all sorts of tyranny, poverty, and painful treatment if they'...
A few flat clouds folded themselves like crepes over fillings of apricot sky. Pompadours of supper-time smoke billowed from chimneys, separating into girlish pigtails as the breeze combed them out, ab...
This did not annoy Amanda for it had long been her theory that human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself from one place to another.
THE SKY IS MORE IMPERSONAL than the sea.
IF THIS TYPEWRITER CAN’T DO IT, then fuck it, it can’t be done.
I believe in political solutions to political problems. But man's primary problems aren't political; they're philosophical. Until humans can solve their philosophical problems, they're condemned to so...
People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.
Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective.
I rather like the smell of absurdity in the morning.
Faith is believing in something you know isn't true.