20 quotes
I have nothing against the smell of rot but something against what hides the smell of rot in the United States of America.
United States of Banana (2011)
Always follow the line of thought of the intuition negating envy.
United States of Banana (2011)
Intuition is the positive energy that envy kills when it refuses to see the rainbow in the sky.
United States of Banana (2011)
Metaphors and similes are the beginning of the democratic system of envy.
United States of Banana (2011)
Love is what is new—so old and necessary—the old god that interchanges values, meaning, sentimentality, food, and languages—the missing link in this culture of destruction and death.
United States of Banana (2011)
A poet rises while falling. It’s the rising in the falling that makes him rise posthumously.
United States of Banana (2011)
I saw the white of fear in America’s eyes. We don’t fear the way we should fear. Our sense of danger should be at the height of our abuse.
United States of Banana (2001)
I fear freedom. I, above all, fear the freedom that is above all feardom.
United States of Banana (2011)
The eradiction of envy: gratitude.
United States of Banana (2011)
The Renaissance had its man: Il Cortesano. The 20th century had its man: the businessman.
United States of Banana (2011)
New York City is the Darwinist capital of the capitalist world.
United States of Banana (2011)
Banks are the temples of America. This is a holy war. Our economy is our religion. (p.8)
United States of Banana (2011)
Without liberty there is no wealth.
United States of Banana (2011)
Eradication of envy: gratitude.
United States of Banana (2011)
I want to be free from freedom. Free.
United States of Banana (2011)
The suicide bomber is an explosion of a contradiction in its paradox, victim and victimizer, yin and yang, two sides of the coin, fire bomb and fire extinguisher, prosecutor and defendant, hangman and hanged.
United States of Banana (2011)
What bosses do: decapitate heads in the name of the freedom of the free markets. It’s bureaucracy terrorism—not different from the other terrorism that marches rampant in the streets—oh, bureaucracy terrorists name the other terrorists cowards, but what are they—sinister cowards—because they cripple your resources. They take away your office, your computer, and your friends.
United States of Banana (2011)
Justice is a fallacy of inequality, and power reaffirms itself through instances of inequality. Watch for those daily struggles of inequality. Thirst is uneven—and smell smells better when it is uneven. Noses are particular but more uneven than eleven. But who needs a formula to prove the unevenness of life.
United States of Banana (2011)
I am a subject that is a head, not a complement of a chicken that has no head. The subject has become the passive observer, the spectator, waiting for the curtains to fall like the guillotine. Artaud said theater can exist without the text—the production has to liberate itself from literature-and it did liberate itself—it became self-sufficient—it became a conjugation.
United States of Banana (2011)
English is a language of mass destruction. Lady Macbeth is a queen of mass destruction. Lear is a king of mass destruction. Hamlet is a prince of mass destruction. Shakespeare is a bard of mass destruction. And Moby Dick is a whale of mass destruction.
United States of Banana (2011)