Anne Sexton Quotes

I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland.

Oui, dans mon rêve, j'étais un crayon, mais admittedly, I'd more suitably be characterized as a plump carrot.

I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.

Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did.

I used to have six left feet. Now I only have one and a half left feet.

I like absurdist aesthetics. There's something about dream logic that's really fascinating, how it interweaves with narrative.

Lewis Carroll, you see, wasn't really interested in telling an exciting story. Well, he wasn't interested in things like cause and effect or a linear narrative. It's surreal, it's absurd, it's wordplay, it's satirical, it's analyzing itself, it's funny, it's an enormous challenge.

Time is three eyes and eight elbows.

I have one aim, the grotesque. If I am not grotesque I am nothing.

Comedy exists to laugh at things that aren't laughable. But isn't it? That's what separates us from the animals. We laugh.

I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.

ordered me a sky from a florist

Agent Jones held Sinjin’s face in his hands. “I’m going to make balloon animals. People need balloon animals.” “How right you are, strange delusional man,” Sinjin said.

The porpoises said hello to Molly. She told them all her teeth were green.

The hamster called. He wants his home back.

I have tried being surreal, but my frogs hop right back into their realistic ponds.

I am running through a snowfall which is her thighs, he dramatized in purple. Her thighs are filling up the street. Wide as a snowfall, heavy as huge falling Zeppelins, her damp thighs are settling on the sharp roofs and wooden balconies. Weather-vanes press the shape of roosters and sail-boats into the skin. The faces of famous statues are preserved like intaglios.

people talk about 'sex' as though it hopped about by itself, like a frog!

I am the eggman They are the eggmen! I am the walrus!

Somebody had tipped the American continent like a pinball machine and all the goofballs had come rolling to LA in the southwest corner. I cried for all of us. There was no end to the American sadness and the American madness. Someday we'll all start laughing and roll on the ground when we realize how funny it's been.

Michael has never cried during a Broadway show. Except in that scene where Tarzan's ape father is brutally murdered. And that was only because he was laughing so hard.

Rick stared at him. "Your brother is an alien." "Yeah, but he's a cute one.

I went into the gas station, said, Fill 'er up, Harry. The guy said, Regular? I said, No, put on a gorrila suit and dance like a fairy.

... half the world starves. What a planet. And the eating, if you're lucky enough to do any. Stuffing pieces of dead animals into a hole in your face. Then munch, munch, munch. If there's anybody watching, they must be dying of laughter.

I had an alarm, I had nerve gas, I had a yogurt. What more could anyone want?