The worst part about zombies raging unchecked is the slow paralysis that they induce in people who aren’t quite zombies yet. The rest of us un-zombies turn our heads, hoping the ghouls will just go away.

The peasants of all lands recognize power and they salute it, whether it’s good or evil.

Two-thirds of what we call New Orleans culture is really myth-making, ... People feed myths of the city back to the city. These myths are now in pieces.

There is a velvety sensuality here at the mouth of the Mississippi that you won't find anywhere else. Tell me what the air feels like at 3 A.M. on a Thursday night in August in Shaker Heights and I bet you won't be able to say because nobody stays up that late. But in New Orleans, I tell you, it's ink and honey passed through silver moonlight.

The real technology -behind all our other technologies- is language. It actually creates the world our consciousness lives in.

Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s.

How did you fall in love with New Orleans? At once, madly. Looking back, sometimes I think it was predestined.

In the grand collage that is Dada, past and future are equally usable.

There is no ´Complete Idiots Guide to Creationism,´ but perhaps one is not needed.

It's still a mystery to me exactly how I learned the language. [But] I was 19 years old and I had very urgent things to tell girls.