Charles Beauregard

“If you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce, they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does.”
― Groucho Marx

“Everything simple is false. Everything complex is unusable.”
― Paul Valéry

“Each Whining Thing (1929)

When stripèd snakes shall creep upon us
And the nervous screams of birds
Make silent all the fountains and the orchards and when these
Have caught upon the wing each wing
That flutters from the sky
Then shall I and then shall I
Rip out the smiles from garden walks
Transform the minnows into hawks
Tarantulas and bees
Then shall I and then shall I
Unmake each whining thing.”
― Paul Bowles, Next to Nothing: Collected Poems, 1926-1977

“It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality.”
― Gilles Deleuze, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia