The real technology -behind all our other technologies- is language. It actually creates the world our consciousness lives in.

There is a velvety sensuality here at the mouth of the Mississippi that you won't find anywhere else. Tell me what the air feels like at 3 AM on a Thursday night in late August in Shaker Heights, and I bet that you won't be able to say because nobody stays up that late. But in New Orleans, I'll tell you, it's like ink and honey passed through silver moonlight.

How did you fall in love with New Orleans? At once, madly. Looking back, sometimes I think it was predestined.

There is no ´Complete Idiots Guide to Creationism,´ but perhaps one is not needed.

It is the job of the market to turn the base material of our emotions into gold.

It's still a mystery to me exactly how I learned the language. [But] I was 19 years old and I had very urgent things to tell girls.

The evaporation of 4 million who believe in this crap would leave the world a better place.