1.
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 AM on a Thursday night in late August in Shaker Heights, and I bet that you won't be able to say because nobody stays up that late. But in New Orleans, I'll tell you, it's like ink and honey passed through silver moonlight.
Andrei Codrescu
2.
The real technology -behind all our other technologies- is language. It actually creates the world our consciousness lives in.
Andrei Codrescu
3.
The peasants of all lands recognize power and they salute it, whether it's good or evil.
Andrei Codrescu
4.
How did you fall in love with New Orleans? At once, madly. Looking back, sometimes I think it was predestined.
Andrei Codrescu
5.
Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s.
Andrei Codrescu
6.
These are the poems of a traveler and a lover who feels both the terror of time passing and the consolation of eternity. From such tension spring lovely poetic objects, ready for intelligent use.
Andrei Codrescu
7.
There is no ´Complete Idiots Guide to Creationism,´ but perhaps one is not needed.
Andrei Codrescu
8.
It is the job of the market to turn the base material of our emotions into gold.
Andrei Codrescu
9.
Nostalgia is masochism and masochism is something masochists love to share.
Andrei Codrescu
10.
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.
Andrei Codrescu
11.
The time has come for writers to become inaccessible again. The reason is not some kind of 'mystique' that makes people curious (though it helps), but the fact that no real writers ever lay down anything real in public-they work in solitude, they think hard, and their thoughts are rarely nice or 'friendly.'
Andrei Codrescu
12.
In the grand collage that is Dada, past and future are equally usable.
Andrei Codrescu
13.
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.
Andrei Codrescu
14.
The evaporation of 4 million who believe in this crap would leave the world a better place.
Andrei Codrescu
15.
Only the poor can create art.
Andrei Codrescu
