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.

There the wicked cease from troubling and there the weary be at rest.

You can be a victim of cancer, or a survivor of cancer. It's a mindset.

I enjoy talking to fans.

The problem with always being a conformist is that when you try to change the system from within, it's not you who changes the system; it's the system that will eventually change you.

Uta Hagen would say, there's the representational actor and the presentational actor.

Donald Trump is actually doing what Bernie Sanders was billed as doing. He's doing new voters into the process.

I try not to be a jerk. I really do. I try to be nice and cordial.

A good role comes along, and a good role is a good role.

For some people, 'ten feet tall' is just a metaphor. For me, it's more than twice my height!

You can be stupid once, but idiotic to do it again. I'll settle for being stupid.