127 quotes
"Things. Cosas. Things attach themselves like leeches to the human soul, then they bleed out the sweetness and the music and the primordial joy of being unencumbered upon the land."
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates (2000)
Certain individual words do possess more pitch, more radiance, more shazam! than others, but it's the way words are juxtaposed with other words in a phrase or sentence that can create magic.
The Syntax of Sorcery (2012)
The man and woman firmly shook hands. The solution to the overpopulation problem might rest in such handshakes.
Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines'.
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas (1994)
You don't have to be a genius to recognize one. If you did, Einstein would never have gotten invited to the White House.
Jitterbug Perfume (1984)
Logic only gives man what he needs. Magic gives him what he wants.
Another Roadside Attraction (1971)
A better world has gotta start somewhere. Why not with you and me?
Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
If you didn't serve the nasty fellow (God), the Romans would burn your house down. If you did serve him, you were called a Christian and got to burn other people's houses down.
Jitterbug Perfume (1984)
The first time that she spread her legs for him it had been like opening her jaws for the dentist.
Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
Modern Romans insisted that there was only one god, a notion that struck Alobar as comically simplistic.
Jitterbug Perfume (1984)
I sense that novel of my dreams is in the Remington SL3 — although it writes much faster than I can spell.
Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
Above the building, the sky recalled passages from Les Miserables, threadbare and gray.
Jitterbug Perfume (1984)
Let me see if I can put it in words that even the inebriated might understand.
Jitterbug Perfume (1984)
She tried out the chamber pot, although she really had nothing to contribute.
Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
She needed help, but God was in a meeting whenever she rang.
Jitterbug Perfume (1984)
There are two kinds of people in this world : those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better.
Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
We humans have always defined ourselves by narration. What's happening today is that we're allowing multi-national corporations to tell our stories for us.
The Syntax of Sorcery (2012)
Hawaii made the mouth of her soul water.
Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
This stuff's so fine Julius Caesar called for it with his dying breath. 'A toot, Brutus,' is what he said.
Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
There are essential and inessential insanities. The latter are solar in character, the former are linked to the moon.
Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)