Quotes About Paradox

Le beau est toujours bizarre

Only when we drink poison are we well.

By a fatal law, a genius is always an idiot.

God is a scandal, - a profitable scandal.

Oh foul magnificence, sublime disgrace.

It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten.

What falls on air yet's lighter than balloon? What betrays time yet folds into a cut? Who flutters at the sight of song then bellows into flight? What height is halved by precipice, what gorge dissolved by trill? Who telling tales upbraids a stump when prattle veils its want? Stone breaks it not, nor diamonds, yet splits with just one word: it's used for casting devils out; still, fools obey it first.

people run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.

For each Joan of Arc there is a Hitler perched at the other end of the teeter-totter.

life itself is not the miracle. that pain should be so constant, that's the miracle -

I have a face like a washrag. I sing love songs and carry steel. I would rather die than cry. I can't stand hounds can't live without them. I hang my head against the white refrigerator and want to scream like the last weeping of life forever but I am bigger than the mountains.

A yet women -good women- frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep. Basically I craved prostitutes, base women, because they were deadly and hard and made no personal demands. Nothing was lost when they left. Yet at the same time I yearned for a gentle, good woman, despite the overwhelming price.

there's no clarity. there was never meant to be clarity.

in the cupboard sits my bottle like a dwarf waiting to scratch out my prayers. I drink and cough like some idiot at a symphony, sunlight and maddened birds are everywhere, the phone rings gamboling its sound against the odds of the crooked sea; I drink deeply and evenly now, I drink to paradise and death and the lie of love.

did you ever consider that lsd and color TV arrived for our consumption around the same time? Here comes all this explorative color pounding, and what do we do? we outlaw one and fuck up the other.

I am a joke told again.

You're the most unknown famous man I ever met

cunt and Kant and a happy home

I know I went mad, almost as an act of theory: the lost are found the sick are healthy the non-creators are the creators.

as a very young man I divided an equal amount of time between the bars and the libraries; how I managed to provide for my other ordinary needs is the puzzle; well, I simply didn't bother too much with that— if I had a book or a drink then I didn't think too much of other things—fools create their own paradise.

I was like a turd that drew flies instead of like a flower that butterflies and bees desired.

It's hell when you're too good to make money.

the best at war finally are those who preach peace

The best people are the ones you never meet.