Name Quotes

I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb surviving only in the infinitive the letters of my name are written under the lids of the newborn child

In the name of respecting the reality, keep the flatterers out of your life!

I’d be in the backyard minding my own business. The other kids would call me names, like meatball head or neo-Calvinist. I’d run after them, but lucky for them the chain would snap my neck back.

Would you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven?

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.

Like so many named places in California it was less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts–census tracts, special purpose bond-issue districts, shopping nuclei, all overlaid with access roads to its own freeway.

What is there in a name? It is merely an empty basket, until you put something into it.

Into the soft sand I will carve your name and let the ocean steal what little remains.

I think that sacrifices of animals in the name of religion are barbarous and they degrade the name of religion.