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

In the grand collage that is Dada, past and future are equally usable.

The peasants of all lands recognize power and they salute it, whether it's good or evil.

The time has come for writers to become inaccessible again. The reason is not some kind of 'mystique' that makes people curious (though it helps), but the fact that no real writers ever lay down anything real in public-they work in solitude, they think hard, and their thoughts are rarely nice or 'friendly.'

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

The worst part about zombies raging unchecked is the slow paralysis that they induce in people who aren't quite zombies yet. The rest of us un-zombies turn our heads, hoping the ghouls will just go away.