One must keep a few smiles aside to laugh at oneself on joyless days.
An entomologist is not a bug.
Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense: the creative act.
I've had it with these cheap sons of bitches who claim they love poetry but never buy a book.
I write for one and only one purpose, to overcome the invincible ignorance of the traduced heart. […] I wish to speak to and for those who have had enough of the Social Lie, the Economics of Mass Murder, the Sexual Hoax, and the Domestication of Conspicuous Consumption.
Maturity is having the ability to escape categorization.
There have always been those who, though they see tragedy as the outcome of freedom, will nevertheless judge that tragedy is not too high a price to pay.
Oh Senor" said the niece. "Your grace should send them to be burned (books), just like all the rest, because it's very likely that my dear uncle, having been cured of the chivalric disease, will read these and want to become a shepherd and wander through the woods and meadows singing and playing and, what would be even worse, become a poet, and that, they say, is an incurable and contagious disease.
I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it's like a circus in my head.
Most of my show is just improvisation. It goes with the energy of the crowd.
Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.