Quotes by Andrei Codrescu

“the city that dreams stories.”

“[l Description of poetry:] Its better to let others describe it, ... The language of Sajes poems dares the world to be delightful and Im delighted to see it rise to the challenge. Guillevic once hoped that poetry would do to things what light does to them, and Sajes poems do just that, waking up the plants, pleating the landscape like an accordion, giving fruits their Zurbaran-like precision in bowls of perfect sunlight.”

“[Many have been speculating on the future of New Orleans. Reading these stories has given me hope that it has one. New Orleans is an] intoxicating brew of rotting and generating, a feeling of death and life simultaneously occurring and inextricably linked, ... The city can drive a sober-minded person insane, but it feeds the dreamer. It feeds the dreamer stories, music and food. Really great food.”

“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.”

“Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmothers.”

With the sound of gusting wind in the branches of the language trees of Babel, the words gave way like leaves, and every reader glimpsed another reality hidden in the foilage.

Nosferatu is the daddy of modern American sex.

Our secrets, odd or not, are the pins that keep our inner life in place: the inform our psyche with meaning.

The fact is we all know that there exists in the world an order different from that in which we pass our days. If we reveal its existence people think that we are crazy.

It is the job of the market to turn the base material of our emotions into gold.

Most artists dont get paid for what they do, and they are lucky if they can persuade a friend to let them show something at a kids birthday party.