W.B. > W.B.'s Quotes

“Happiness is good health and a bad memory.”
― Ingrid Bergman

“But how will I eat cake if my head is over there, and my hands are over here?”
― Marie Antoinette

“Words once uttered, cannot be buttered, so season them all before you speak”
― Carrie King

“My eyes are vague blue, like the sky, and change all the time; they are indiscriminate but fleeting, entirely specific and disloyal, so that no one trusts me. I am always looking away. Or again at something after it has given me up.”
― Frank O'Hara, Meditations in an Emergency

“I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

“One way to remain
unfinished is to stop.
the other is to go on.”
― Laura Moriarty

“I once typed 'vagina dentata' into dictionary.com and it asked me, 'Did you mean giant anteater?”
― Juliet Cook

“Father son oily ghost amen.”
― Ginnetta Correli

“You're the ruler of the universe. Try to show a little taste!”
― Ed Wood

“...'cause humans, above all, fear intelligence. how humans, scared out of their minds, gather whatever intelligence they can put their hands on and put it all in a central penitentiary named facts...”
― Kathy Acker, Pussy, King of the Pirates

“It never got weird enough for me.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

“After the first glass of vodka
you can accept just about anything
of life even your own mysteriousness
you think it is nice that a box
of matches is purple and brown and is called La Petite and comes from Sweden
for they are words that you know and that is all you know words not their feelings or what they mean and you write because you know them not because you understand them because you don't you are stupid and lazy and will never be great but you do what you know because what else is there?”
― Frank O'Hara, The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara

“The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.”
― Christopher Hampton, Total Eclipse

“Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): "What's the matter, sexy? Don't you like dehydrated fruit?”
― Quentin Crisp

“A true poet does not say 'azure'; a true poet says 'blue.”
― Else Lasker-Schüler

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
― Plato

“I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.”
― Richard Brautigan

“SPIT ALL OVER SOMEONE WITH A MOUTHFUL OF MILK IF YOU WANT TO FIND OUT SOMETHING ABOUT THEIR PERSONALITY FAST.”
― Jenny Holzer

“You are a beautiful person, Doctor. Clearheaded. Strong. But you seem always to be dragging your heart along the ground. From now on, little by little, you must prepare yourself to face death. If you devote all of your future energy to living, you will not be able to die well. You must begin to shift gears, a little at a time. Living and dying are, in a sense, of equal value."--Nimit in "Thailand”
― Haruki Murakami, After the Quake

“If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
― John Waters

“Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.”
― Charles Bukowski

“A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.”
― Franz Kafka

“You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake and perhaps as long as eternity too.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man