There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
I'd much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive.
There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.
More modern poetry is written than read.
The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.
I accept that there are multitudes seeking God, seeking meaning, and so on, but if they reject atheism, I would rather they became modern-day Catholics or Jews than that they became Muslims.
I've said this before: a homeless guy in Detroit has more mojo than a millionaire in Jacksonville.
I couldn't think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow's leaders.
When it comes to the British monarchy, I prefer to be seduced by an image than presented with a real person. It's kind of a Warhol thing.
You could put on monkeys jumping up and down and get bigger numbers than MSNBC.
Sir Terry Pratchett - he was knighted in 2009, and on him it looked earned rather than entitled - wrote about dragons, wizards, turtles, witches, time-travelling monks, and suitcases with legs.
Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.
Animals don't lie. Animals don't criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.
I learned that moral courage is harder than physical courage.
Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.
When we talk about self-confrontations, we are speaking about moral issues rather than social issues.
Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
A year from now, you're gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now.
I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, I'm much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons.
