Dave > Dave's Quotes

“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“And what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversation?”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.”
― Frank Zappa

“Government is the Entertainment division of the military-industrial complex.”
― Frank Zappa

“You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
― Anne Lamott

“Omigosh—I'm a squash!”
― Dave Horowitz, The Ugly Pumpkin

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to."

[MovieMaker Magazine #53 - Winter, January 22, 2004 ]”
― Jim Jarmusch

“The eyebrows are the punctuation marks of the face.”
― Dave Horowitz

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“The good news and the bad news are the same: No one cares!”
― Dave Horowitz

“I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.”
― Rumi

“A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded.”
― Murray Kempton

“As for literary criticism in general: I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel or a play or a poem is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae or a banana split.”
― kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

“To get over artist's block, make shitty art.”
― Dave Horowitz

“We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don't have books, don't fuck them.”
― John Waters

“Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.”
― Moli