It is more important to be free than to be happy.
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.
Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is recorded the truth that it is better to be endangered and free than captive and comfortable.
Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don’t be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.
Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have known all along that it depends on whether they are jitterbugging or dancing cheek to cheek.
I don’t want to give the impression that I hold daily conversations with my household appliances, although my toaster is as old as Drew Barrymore and almost as talented.
When humans were young, they were pushed around in strollers. When they were old, they were pushed around in wheelchairs. In between, they were just pushed around.
Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It’s no coincidence we call them ’deadlines.
Minds were made for blowing.
Any half-awake materialist well knows – that which you hold holds you.