Andrei Codrescu Quotes

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

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

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

Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s.

These are the poems of a traveler and a lover who feels both the terror of time passing and the consolation of eternity. From such tension spring lovely poetic objects, ready for intelligent use.

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

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

Nostalgia is masochism and masochism is something masochists love to share.

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.

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

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

Only the poor can create art.

With the sound of gusting wind in the branches of the language trees of Babel, the words gave way like leaves, and every reader glimpsed another reality hidden in the foilage.

Our secrets, odd or not, are the pins that keep our inner life in place: the inform our psyche with meaning.

The fact is we all know that there exists in the world an order different from that in which we pass our days. If we reveal its existence people think that we are crazy.

Most artists don't get paid for what they do, and they are lucky if they can persuade a friend to let them show something at a kid's birthday party.