The beauty of simplicity is the complexity it attracts.
A hamburger is an icon of layered circles, the circle being at once the most spiritual and the most sensual of shapes.
Curiosity, especially intellectual inquisitiveness, is what separates the truly alive from those who are merely going through the motions.
The brown paper bag is the only thing civilized man has produced that does not seem out of place in nature.
To live fully, one must be free, but to be free one must give up security. Therefore, to live one must be ready to die. How’s that for a paradox?
Those who shun the whimsy of things will experience rigor mortis before death.
But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity’s a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation.
It is more important to be free than to be happy.
I work with pen and paper. That’s my favorite way to write. I love the way the ink sinks into the wood, soaks into the wood pulp. There’s something about that process that’s so organic.
Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.
As a child, I was an imaginary playmate.
In the beginning was the thing. And one thing led to another.
The only authority I respect is the one that causes butterflies to fly south in fall and north in springtime.
The trick is this: keep your eye on the ball. Even when you can’t see the ball.
In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn’t creak.
Salvador Dali and fifty cents will get you a cup of clock melt.
Louisiana in September was like an obscene phone call from nature. The air – moist, sultry, secretive, and far from fresh – felt as if it were being exhaled into one’s face. Sometimes it even sounded like heavy breathing.
The human race has always defined itself through narration. That isn’t going to change just because we’ve gone electronic. What is changing is that now we’re allowing corporations to tell our stories for us.
The function of the artist is to provide what life does not.
Eating a raw oyster is like french kissing a mermaid.