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), bu…

- Andrei Codrescu

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 lov…

- Andrei Codrescu

Nostalgia is masochism and masochism is something masochists love to share.

- Andrei Codrescu

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

- Andrei Codrescu

The peasants of all lands recognize power and they salute it, whether it's good or evil.

- Andrei Codrescu

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-zombie…

- Andrei Codrescu

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 Th…

- Andrei Codrescu

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

The real technology -behind all our other technologies- is language. It actually creates the world our consciousness lives in.

- Andrei Codrescu