O tequila, savage water of sorcery, what confusion and mischief your sly, rebellious drops do generate.
You know a trillion times more about art than me. But I’ve learned that it isn’t necessary to know all that much. You just make what you wanna see, right? It’s a game, right? It’s like being paid for dreaming.
The trickster’s function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom.
A spirit cannot soar with only one wing.
When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle.
I’m probably more interested in sentences than anything else in life.
I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred.
When we can converse with the animals, we will know the change is halfway here. When we can converse with the forest, we will know the change has come.
There is only one serious question. And that is: Who knows how to make love stay? Answer me that and I will tell you whether or not to kill yourself.
America is a nation of 270 million people: 100 million of them are gangsters, another 100 million are hustlers, 50 million are complete lunatics, and every single one of us is secretly in show business. Isn’t that fabulous?
You wonder if God doesn’t have an answering machine to screen out the prayers of the venal and the boring? And in which category has he placed you?
She needed help, but God was in a meeting whenever she rang.
Never be afraid to make a fool of yourself. The furthest out you can go is the best place to be.
Redheads are said to be children of the moon, thwarted by the sun and addicted to sex and sugar.
The moon invented natural rhythm. Civilization uninvented it.
More immediately, by waxing soulful you will have granted yourself the possibility of ecstatic participation in what the ancients considered a divinely animated universe. And on a day to day basis, folks, it doesn’t get any better than that.
When we accept bad art because it’s good politics, we’re killing the swan to feed the chickens.
If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.
A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don’t know how to write sentences.
At the typewriter you find out who you are.