Outlaws are not members of society. However, they may be important to society.
Nonetheless, the oyster, could it fancy, should fancy its excremental equipment a hot item, for what other among Creation’s crapping creatures can convert its bodily wastes into treasure?
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
Employing women as my primary protagonists has allowed me to step outside of myself, to distance myself from my own personality, far more easily than were I to look at events from a masculine perspective.
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
There are only two mantras, yum and yuck, mine is yum.
Madame Lily Devalier always asked “Where are you?” in a way that insinuated that there were only two places on earth one could be: New Orleans and somewhere ridiculous.
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
I started writing when I was 5 years old. I would dictate stories to my mother, and she would copy them in a scrapbook. If she changed anything to make it, in her opinion, better, I would throw a tantrum.
You should never hesitate to trade your cow for a handful of magic beans.
Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need.
I like to think of myself as a fiction writer who liked art enough to write about it for a while, and then went on to his fiction.
Never underestimate how much assistance, how much satisfaction, how much comfort, how much soul and transcendence there might be in a well-made taco and a cold bottle of beer.
We’re our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.
There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.
Breathe properly. Stay curious. And eat your beets.
What I’ve learned along the way is that existence is cosmic theatre, but paradoxically, we should play our roles to the absolute best of our ability while having the wisdom not to take them too seriously.
There is no such thing as a weird human being, It’s just that some people require more understanding than others.
Amnesia is not knowing who one is and wanting desperately to find out. Euphoria is not knowing who one is and not caring. Ecstasy is knowing exactly who one is – and still not caring.