Villa Incognito Quotes
"It is what it is, you are what you it, and there are no mistakes."
"When socialism is pushed beyond a certain point, it becomes totalitarianism. Capitalism, on the other hand, if carried to its extreme, becomes anarchy."
"You can’t rest in the shade of a human, not even a roly-poly one."
"Each morning, the greasy rag of wakefulness wipes us clean."
"Those who travel in Cognito—their very lives can depend on a hunch."
"Eat intuition for breakfast and sip cold paranoia at lunch."
"A real villain is always preferable to a fake hero."
"Meet me where the sun don’t shine, with a fake I.D. and some dope."
"In Cognito, every day’s a surprise, where truth tells all the best lies."
"You’re destined to be clandestine, Incognito is our very last hope."
"On the wire is living, everything else is only waiting."
"It is what it is. You are what you it. There are no mistakes."
"If you won’t meet me in Cognito, Baby, I’m apt to go out of my head."
"The mystery of mayonnaise is how it can make anything taste better."
"Anything superficial is not soulful. Anything artificial, imitative, or overly refined is not soulful."
"In the end, perhaps we should simply imagine a joke; a long joke that’s being continually retold."
"Life is that joke, my friends. The soul is its punch line."
"The soul is nothing more, probably, than the authentic vibration of the biosphere."
"Just remember, man, that the head bone’s connected to the heart bone."
"Closure is no more guaranteed than survival in war."
"Our raids never fully achieved their objectives—NVA troops, supplies, and ordnance continued to flow down the trail."
"For sixty-four mil, you could buy my entire hometown, including the catfish farm, and have enough left over for a secondhand Cadillac and a weekend in Vegas."
"Like Jesus, Tanuki is here and not here. He is always with us, yet conspicuously absent."
"The true believer can believe in a political system, in a religious doctrine, or in some social movement that combines elements of the two, but the true believer cannot truly believe in life."
"Music, chess, wine, card games, attractive clothing, dancing, meditation, kites, perfume, marijuana, flirting, soccer, cheeseburgers, any expression of beauty, and any recognition of genius or individual excellence: each of those things has been severely condemned and even outlawed by one cadre of true believers or another in modern times."
"That’s right. For the wedding. Well, as best man, at least I’ll get to kiss the bride."
"In our Declaration of Independence, we consecrate ourselves as a nation to the pursuit of happiness. That in itself is an admission of habitual discontent. One needn’t pursue what one already possesses."
"It’s actually kind of touching, how Americans can be so proud, so full of adolescent bravado, and on the other hand be so transparently insecure."
"Self-importance and self-doubt are usually interchangeable. They’re two sides of the same coin."
"The door to novelty is always slightly ajar: many pass it by with barely a glance, some peek inside but choose not to enter, others dash in and dash out again; while a few, drawn by curiosity, boredom, rebellion, or circumstance, venture in so deep or wander around in there so long that they can never find their way back out."
"What you’re seeing is the perfection of a conscious act of craziness."
"We only rise above mediocrity when there’s something at stake."
"The notion of life implies a certain absoluteness of self-enjoyment."
"If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands."
"You and I, we only have to deal with the government."
"If it works, I can cancel my home insurance."
"We have a saying in English: ‘Takes a thief to catch a thief.’"