127 quotes
Nostalgia's nice enough in little bitty doses, it puts personal peach fuzz on the hard ass of history.
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates (2000)
I journey to the east, where I have been told, there are men who have taught death some manners.
Jitterbug Perfume (1984)
If you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropiate port you find yourself docked.
Jitterbug Perfume (1984)
The winter passed as slowly and peacefully as a boa constrictor digesting a valium addict.
Skinny Legs and All (1990)
She lunched on papaya poo poo or mango mu mu or some other fruity foo foo bursting with overripe tropical vowels.
Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
A sense of humor, properly developed, is superior to any religion so far devised.
Jitterbug Perfume (1984)
To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
Jitterbug Perfume (1984)
"I'm looking for the novelists whose writing is an extension of their intellect rather than an extension of their neurosis."
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates (2000)
In the quiet ache of the evening, Alobar listened to his calluses grow.
Jitterbug Perfume (1984)
Any half-awake materialist well knows — that which you hold holds you.
Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
Her surname resembled a line from an optometrist's examination chart.
Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
Of the seven deadly sins, lust is definitely the pick of the litter.
Skinny Legs and All (1990)
Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.
Skinny Legs and All (1990)
Genius may stand on the shoulders of giants, but it stands alone.
The Syntax of Sorcery (2012)
Just because something didn't happen doesn't mean it isn't true.
The Syntax of Sorcery (2012)
If this typewriter can't do it, then fuck it, it can't be done.
Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
A person can't make a career out of somebody else's invective.
Skinny Legs and All (1990)
Most snoring is composed by Beethoven or Wagner, although a few times Wiggs had heard heavy metal rock performed on the somnambulate bassoon.
Jitterbug Perfume (1984)
Of course I've contradicted myself. I always do. Only cretins and logicians don't contradict themselves. And in their consistency, they contradict life.
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1976)
There is no such thing as a weird human being. It's just that some people require more understanding than others.
Another Roadside Attraction (1971)