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

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.

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

One does not have humor. It has you.

I feel that it is vital that we all re-open our spiritual gifts and open up to the voice of the Divine.

Audiences tend to get the performances they deserve.

But I do have a computer at home and a pretty good ISDN connection.

I'm able to support my wife and family off of gymnastics. But at the same time I do take it very seriously - it is a job for me.

Africa is being raped mainly by Asia, but the second largest market for dead endangered animals is the US. Most don't know this is happening. I didn't, but once I found out, I had to try and help.

I’d rather apologize than to be so timid as to never try to do anything smart or brave.

When I became a man, and I started to understand the difference between the truth and what your parents are supposed to tell you, there's a difference, know what I mean?

Politicians... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics.

Man struggles to survive, not to succumb