* some views expressed in these quotations not neccesarily endorsed by the author of this file.
* for entertainment only - history is not an exact science - dates and quotes not guaranteed for accuracy.
The plumber can find nothing wrong with our piano; so
I suppose that my wife does love me.
I have had more trouble with myself than with
any other man I have ever met!
I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the
thoughtless approval of the masses.
To see things in the seed, that is genius.
I'm on a whisky diet. I've lost three days already!
Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.
I just hope we're a nice old couple living off the
coast of Ireland or something like that--looking
at our scrapbook of madness.
I was never really wanted. The only reason I am a
star is because of my repression. Nothing would
have driven me through all that if I was "normal."
I used to say to me auntie, "You throwing my f**kin'
poetry out, and you'll regret it when I'm famous,"
and she threw the bastard stuff out. I never
forgave her for not treating me like a f**kin'
genius or whatever I was when I was a child.
A poet begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Actors are targets. Millions of people
see them on screen and fantasize. Some try to
change their fantasies into reality.
Art is a conservative power, the strongest of all; it preserves
spiritual possibilities that without it--perhaps--would die out.
The age of an author is of no consequence; if
they are any good, they were born old and wise.
Bob Dylan is singing "The Times They Are A Changin'"
in a television ad for healthcare giant Kaiser
Permanente these days, and who could argue? With
Led Zeppelin pitching Cadillacs, the Rolling Stones
strutting in an Ameriquest Mortgage ad and Paul
McCartney warbling for Fidelity Investments, it's
clear that the old counterculture heroes of classic
rock are now firmly entrenched as the house band of corporate America.
Everything you can imagine is real.
Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
You can't shame or humiliate modern celebrities. What used to be called shame and humiliation is now called publicity.
I had found years ago that
the difference between madness and cruelty doesn't matter much to a
victim.
What the literary people in the ivory towers forget is that business is the key to everything - to the good life, to the arts, to civilization itself.