John > John's Quotes

“A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. A psychotic is a guy who's just found out what's going on.”
― William S. Burroughs

“History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“All that you can imagine you already know”
― Stephen Spender

“A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.”
― Dylan Thomas

“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”
― Dorothy Parker

“A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.”
― Djuna Barnes

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

“The hardest thing was to give meaning to what appeared to have none.”
― Tatjana Soli, The Lotus Eaters

“Why did someone fall in love with you because you are one thing and then want you to be something else?”
― Tatjana Soli, The Lotus Eaters

“Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.”
― Frank O'Hara, Meditations in an Emergency

“I am what I am, and that's all that I am.”
― Popeye