Tequila Worm Quotes

Meaningless sex is like eating the worm at the bottom of a tequila bottle: fun in the moment, but not something you’d want to repeat over and over.” —MELANTHE OF THE DEIE SORCERI, QUEEN OF PERSUASION

Stop thinking that nuns are sweet and kind like Maria in The Sound of Music. That's just a movie. Think of the evil old bruja in 'Hansel and Gretal.

The Worm at the Bottom of the Bottle Blue agave, spiny like the desert cacti, once fermented in the mesquite barrels of Jalisco, Mexico, is now manifest in the liquid smoke of my Tequila bottle. By the third shot, I think I'm in love with the gusano, the red caterpillar people mistake for a worm, pickling intact, attesting to the purity of the holy spirits. I shake the bottle and the worm falls like the fresh powder in my Montreal snowglobe of an ice skater, the globe's Christmas melody replaced by La Cucaracha playing convivially on my mind's soundtrack (in a bit in a rut because I've forgotten the second stanza). The worm has hit bottom, and so have I. I don't take this an ominous portent, but as a sign it's time to ditch the glass and drink straight from the bottle.

Death warmed over. Rode hard and put up wet. Straight off a five-day bender. Emptied the tequila bottle with a straw and then sucked the worm through.

No Man's Land Let's hook up in that no man's land of Texas where a stuffed diamondback rattles in every bar, and them Tequila worms still got some wiggle left in em. We'll git tanked on Dulce Vida and Jack, go a-skinny dippin' in the Rio Grande, just 'bout where the 83 and our Land of the free bravely dead ends. I say we git drunker than ten Indians take the pickup 'cross the border to Nueva score some meth from the Los Zetas, and fuck some chikas in the ass. Jeez, it is nothing more better than being an American.

I smiled, for now I understood that it was not an obsession with death that Mexicans had after all, but rather an acceptance of it - woven like a thick vine throughout our lives, helping us transcend death itself and compelling us to live even richer, more meaningful lives.