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"We all dream profusely every night, yet by morning we've forgotten ninety percent of what went on. That's why poets are such important members of society. Poets remember our dreams for us."
"Love is the ultimate outlaw."
"You wonder if God doesn't have an answering machine to screen out the prayers of the venal and the boring? And in which category has he placed you?"
"When we accept bad art because it's good politics, we're killing the swan to feed the chickens."
"Writing a novel is not so much a project as a journey, a voyage, an adventure."
"Christianity... is an Eastern religion."
"Rivers are the primal highways of life. From the crack of time, they had borne men's dreams, and in their lovely rush to elsewhere, fed our wanderlust, mimicked our arteries, and charmed our imaginations in a way the static pond or vast and savage ocean never could."
"Redheads are said to be children of the moon, thwarted by the sun and addicted to sex and sugar."
"As expected, you get his machine. Someday, even the "call of nature" will be answered by a machine."
"More immediately, by waxing soulful you will have granted yourself the possibility of ecstatic participation in what the ancients considered a divinely animated universe. And on a day to day basis, folks, it doesn't get any better than that."
"The author isn't altogether certain that there is any such thing as exaggeration. Our brains permit us to use such a wee fraction of their resources that, in a sense, everything we experience is a reduction. We employ drugs, yoga techniques and poetics - and a thousand more clumsy methods - in an effort just to bring things back up to normal."
"Now that I'm in love, I haven't a clue. Now that I'm in love, I'm completely stupid on the subject."
"Heaven is living in your hopes and Hell is living in your fears. It's up to each individual which one he chooses."
"Eighty percent of love is smell."
"But say you've inflated your soul to the size of a beach ball and it's soaking into the Mystery like wine into a mattress. What have you accomplished? Well, long term, you may have prepared yourself for a successful metamorphosis, an almost inconceivable transformation to be precipitated by your death or by some great worldwide eschatological whoopjamboreehoo. You may have. No one can say for sure."
"There's probably no subject with quite so many conflictin' opinions about it as there are about food, and 'tis better to swap bubble gum with a rabid bulldog than challenge a single one o' the varyin' beliefs your average human holds about nutrition."
"Success can eliminate as many options as failure."
"She needed help, but God was in a meeting whenever she rang."
"Laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it's love and love alone that really matters."
"In the end, perhaps we should simply imagine a joke; a long joke that's continually retold in an accent too thick and strange to ever be completely understood. Life is that joke my friends. The soul is the punch line."