When you clean up a city, you destroy it.

True revolution comes from true revulsion; when things get bad enough the kitten will kill the lion.

I only want sweet peace and kindliness when I awaken -- but there's always some finger pointing, telling me some terrible deed I committed during the night. It seems I make a lot of mistakes and it seems that I am not allowed any.

A woman must be nursed into subsistence by love, where a man can become stronger by being hated." - from 'Cows in Art Class

the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart

The centuries are sprinkled with rare magic with divine creatures who help us get past the common and extraordinary ills that beset us

I've never met another man I'd rather be.