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Curiosity, especially intellectual inquisitiveness, is what separates the truly alive from those who are merely going through the motions.

Eating a raw oyster is like french kissing a mermaid.

If you want to make a name for yourself, the oldest trick in the book is to attack what everybody else reveres.

Be careful what goes into your mouth and what comes out of it.

So it was that neither for the first time nor the last my verbal mojo, my knack for the written word, served to save my reckless ass.

As you know, I've been sick and stupid for a long time. I have a lot to make up for,

To the domesticated, nomads were an unwelcome reminder of instinct suppressed, liberty compromised, and control unimplemented.

What looks to be a wisp of cloud is actually the moon, narrow and pale like a paring snipped from a snowman's toenail.

To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

This is the room where Jezebel frescoed her eyelids with history's tragic glitter

A sense of humor ... is superior to any religion so far devised.

In the end what will prevail is your passion not your tale, for love is the Holy Grail.

The notion of life implies a certain absoluteness of self-enjoyment

Some folks hide, and some folks seek, and seeking, when it's mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous can be a form of hiding.

Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious and intense.

There is no death. There are only different levels of life.

Maybe what I admired most about John Steinbeck is that he never mortgaged his 45-acre heart for a suite in an ivory tower.

I began to hitchhike in something akin to geological time: slow, ancient, vast.

As expected, you get his machine. Someday, even the "call of nature" will be answered by a machine.

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.

He said that when you're locked up, smoking a cigarette is like having a friend.

The international situation is desperate, as usual.

Matters are very seldom all black or white. They can even be both at the same time - The Beer Fairy

There's a direct link between the buffalo hunts and Vietnam, said Switters.

I see you've met Desire and Fulfillment...Regret is in the kitchen making coffee.

How could something called 'The Breath of the Ass' help but bring trouble?

Of the Seven Dwarfs, the only one who shaved was Dopey. That should tell us something about the wisdom of shaving.

She needed help, but God was in a meeting whenever she rang.

They coil around each other, the light and the darkness, and they absorb each other continuously, yet they never cancel each other out.

Consider the silent repose of the sausage as compared to the aggressiveness of bacon.

I'm not infatuated with frivolousness. We're just good friends.

It was quite likely the best advice I've ever received. I can't help but wonder what my life would have been like if I'd actually followed it.

Anything that says Yes to life is automatically saying No to war.

I have never ever Googled myself; in fact I think the Christian right prohibits such things.

I'll follow him to the ends of the earth,' she sobbed. Yes, darling. But the earth doesn't have any ends. Columbus fixed that.

I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe.

People of ze wurl, relax!

I asked Mr. Wrangle what you were like. He said you were hornet juice and rosebuds in a container of gazelle meat.

The Impressionists were able to lead the viewer into mixing color in his or her own eye.

Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels.

Writing is the hardest physical work there is.

Was it wife soup and husband soup on the Other Side? Or was it simply soup?

Those who willingly accept being conned are as corrupt as those who con them.

Meet me in Cognito, baby. In Cognito, we'll have nothing to hide.

I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured.

Kissing is man's greatest invention. All animals copulate, but only humans kiss.

Mystery is the face everybody shared before they were born and the joke they'll finally get after they're dead.

[R]ed hair is slow to lay back once it's got its dandruff up, and her bitchy mood required further opportunity to express itself.

Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

There's nothing like the word dangerous to generate interest: it's irresistible to young males, scary to most young females.

It was laughter that might have been squeezed from the tubes of his own darkest heart, then amplified fifty times through the bellows of a loon's ass.

I may be mad, he thought, but I prefer the shit of this world to whatever sweet ambrosias the next may offer.

If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering.

You can hook a rainbow to a goofy vision -Jellybean is doing that- but you can't hook a rainbow to a lie

If being alive is not a virtue, then there is little virtue in virtue.

My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy.

What was it like in there? Inside a daisy?" My answer: "Like a cathedral made of mathematics and honey.

This cave within a cave, this paleolithic pussy, this decent into the deepest dark of fuck.

Long as you're not afraid, nobody can run your life for you. Remember that. Hell is being scared of things.

Sometimes one gets the feeling that life still thinks it's living in Paris in the '30s.

Always compare yourself to the best. Even if you never measure up, it can't help but make you better.

The price of self-destiny is never cheap, and in certain situations it is unthinkable.

Someone once commented that I have a great thirst for knowledge, to which I replied, What the hell? I'll drink anything.

Salvador Dali and fifty cents will get you a cup of clock melt.

They accepted my donation, so they're aware they'd better serve my interests or I'll buy some leadership that will.

There have been cans of dog food more splendiferous than South Richmond. Land mines more tender.

Sissy dear. Your thumbs. HOLLYWOOD SPECTACULAR. LAS VEGAS. THE ROSE BOWL. Larger than any one man's desire.

red hair is caused by sugar and lust.

I rather like the smell of absurdity in the morning.

Peeple of zee wurl, relax

Smoking cigarettes is as intimate as we can become with fire without immediate excruciation.

Reality whistles a different tune underwater.

In the life of the individual, an aesthetic sensibility is both more authentic and more commendable than a political or religious one.

Now I'd fallen into it like a drunk hobo falling into a vat of champagne.

I am what I it. It is what is is.

It is more important to be free than to be happy.

Outlaws, like lovers, poets, and tubercular composers who cough blood onto piano keys, do their finest work in the slippery rays of the moon.

To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.

All dreams continue in the beyond.

Religion is a paramount contributor to human misery. It is not merely the opium of the masses, it is the cyanide.

Live the beauty or your own reality.

Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.

Survival is not important. What matters is how you survive.

It had been reported that Tanuki fell from the sky using his scrotum as a parachute.

The sky is as gruff as a Chinese waiter. It keeps slamming the silverware against the horizon.

Slang just makes people more stupid, that's all,

The function of the artist is to provide what life does not.

Above all, have a good time. If you aren't enjoying writing it, you can hardly expect someone else to enjoy reading it.

When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders.

Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.

Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective.

The beauty of simplicity is the complexity it attracts.

People are never perfect, but love can be.

His voice wore no pants.

They were straining so desperately for admission to paradise that they had forgotten that paradise had always been their address.

Hard times and funky living can season the soul, true enough, but joy is the yeast that makes it rise.

Hemingway and Norman Mailer might have disagreed, but there is no heavyweight champion of literature.

An old Ukrainian proverb warns, "A tale that begins with a beet will end with the devil." That is a risk we have to take.

He who jokes in the executioners face can be destroyed, but never defeated.