A hamburger is an icon of layered circles, the circle being at once the most spiritual and the most sensual of shapes.

When we accept bad art because it's good politics, we're killing the swan to feed the chickens.

Some marriages are made in heaven, Mine was made in Hong Kong, by the same people who make those little rubber pork chops they sell in the pet department at Kmart.

...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on Heaven is to create hell. In their desperate longing to transcend the disorderliness, friction, and unpredictability that pesters life; in their desire for a fresh start in a tidy habitat, germ-free and secured by angels, religious multitudes are gambling the only life they may ever have on a dark horse in a race that has no finish line.

I journey to the east, where I have been told, there are men who have taught death some manners.

Our world isn't made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms; our world is made of language.

I'm probably more interested in sentences than anything else in life.