Willy Boy > Willy's Quotes

“Eat a lot of ham & retain a lot of water, Swell until your clothes tear; Go on like this and swell some more, Till you split out the seams of your skin, Itself & don't stop there; But pop all the buttons on your inner self, As well, then for the hard part, Swell & burst out of whatever comes next; Whatever final metaphysical envelope or dark, Is left so you can emerge at last wriggling, & dripping like a shrimp on a fork. --Traditional Sea Chanty”
― Blaster Al Ackerman, I Taught My Dog To Shoot A Gun

“If there is a true universal mind, must it be sane?”
― Charles Fort

“Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”
― Mark Twain

“The sheer oddity of life seems to me of more and more importance, because more and more the pretense is that life is charted, predictable, and controllable.”
― Robert Aickman, Painted Devils: Strange Stories

“I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.”
― Albert Camus, The First Man

“If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.”
― Philip K. Dick

“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
― Robert Bloch

“The Copenhagen Interpretation is sometimes called "model agnosticism" and holds that any grid we use to organize our experience of the world is a model of the world and should not be confused with the world itself. Alfred Korzybski, the semanticist, tried to popularize this outside physics with the slogan, "The map is not the territory." Alan Watts, a talented exegete of Oriental philosophy, restated it more vividly as "The menu is not the meal.”
― Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger: Die letzten Geheimnisse der Illuminaten oder An den Grenzen des erweiterten Bewusstseins

“If I believe in anything, it is in the dark night of the soul. Awe is my religion, and mystery is its church.”
― Charles Simic

“Mr. Big-Ass she calls me, if you'll excuse the expression. And I say, ''Honey, you can't drive a spike with a tack hammer''.”
― Robert Woodruff Anderson, You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running

“Bring something incomprehensible into the world!”
― Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Even on the poorest streets people could be heard laughing. Some of these streets were completely dark, like black holes, and the laughter that came from who knows where was the only sign, the only beacon that kept residents and strangers from getting lost.”
― Roberto Bolaño, 2666

“I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames.”
― Antonin Artaud, The Theater and Its Double

“Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.”
― Gilles Deleuze

“After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident.”
― J.G. Ballard, Crash

“effect the exchange of labor and services by means of an exchange of heartbeats. estimate every task in terms of heartbeats-the monetary unit of the future, in which all individuals are equally wealthy.”
― Velimir Khlebnikov

“Like all these long low squat houses, it had been built not for but against. They were built against the forest, against the sea, against the elements, against the world. They had roof-beams and doors and hatred--as though in this part of the world an architect always included hatred among his tools, and said to his apprentice: 'Mind you've brought along enough hatred today.”
― Jane Gaskell, Some Summer Lands

“There are some things so serious that you have to laugh at them.”
― Niels Bohr

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“I am an intellectual thug who has been slowly accumulating a private arsenal with every intention of using it. In a mindless age every insight takes on the character of a lethal weapon. Every man of good will is the enemy of society.”
― Marshall McLuhan

“I started out to be honest,
with everything on the square.
But a man can't fool with the Golden Rule
in a crowd that won't play fair.

You don't go down with a hard, short fall,
you just sort of shuffle along.
And loosen your load of the moral code,
'till you can't tell right from wrong.”
― Clarence Leonard Hay

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.”
― Aldous Huxley

“If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“a page is not a four sided white void
in which to practice zeroness.”
― Ed Sanders, Investigative Poetry