A.A. Allen Quotes

Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.

All these books are published in Heaven.

I've got enough money to live where I want, but I don't want to move.Go out and have sexual adventures in Burma.

the voices of our ancestors telling of our glorious past, our culture, and what it means to be an Indian.

It made me feel good to know that we had such a great country like Canada where even a poor Indian from the Red Pheasant reserve could make it to the top.

what sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination

I always lived very frugally. I flew around on a private jet. I had a boat. But I always lived very frugally.

My next climb is going to be a tourist troll in a wheelchair.

Recent history is the record of one vast conspiracy to impose one level of mechanical consciousness on mankind.

The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy!

My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.

I think the term "Kantian constructivism" as an oxymoron. Kant was a constructivist about mathematics, but not about ethics.

We should because when coaches get fired, the players have a lot to do with it.

But we shall not know the world by looking at it; we know it by looking at the hovering fly.

First thoughts are the strongest.

Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.

What came is gone forever every time

Truth is dissent, where all power resides in the Big Lie.

Night is the wonderful opportunity to take rest, to forgive, to smile, to get ready for all the battles that you have to fight tomorrow.

I know too much and not enough

Psychiatric diagnosis still relies exclusively on fallible subjective judgments rather than objective biological tests.

The studies indicate that focusing our attention on someone else, takes our mind off of our own problems. We stay healthier and thereby live longer.

Row after row with strict impunity The headstones yield their names to the element, The wind whirrs without recollection.

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.

The Spring I seek is in a new face only.

What is the flesh and blood compounded ofBut a few moments in the life of time?This prowling of the cells, litigious love,Wears the long claw of flesh-arguing crime.

Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about it.

Research has shown that people who volunteer often live longer.

The first law of sustainability: population growth and/or growth in the rate of consumption of resources cannot be sustained

Can you think of anything that can get better if we crowd more people into our cities, our towns, into our state our nation or on this earth?

Laughter can help relieve tension in even the heaviest of matters.

Venus knows country matters: country knows Venus: For Love, Dione's boy, was born on the farm.

When times get tough, at some point, people instinctively know they need to lighten up in order to get through it.

I've always known my dad is a one-off and his own person. But I feel that underneath he has always loved me.

Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.

Like sheep that get lost nibbling away at the grass because they never look up, we often focus so much on ourselves and our problems that we get lost.

When people are smiling they are most receptive to almost anything you want to teach them.

It is possible to have pardon without forgiveness-a murderer can be pardoned by the governor, but that does not mean the victim's family has forgiven him. And there can be forgiveness without pardon.

I've met Nicole Kidman, Elton John, loads of people.

This is the thing you dream about when you're a kid, even before getting into the league.

We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter

Forget the past - the future will give you plenty to worry about.

Cats are people, and the sooner the world accepts that fact, the better off the world will be.

Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels.

Humor can be one of our best survival tools.

Misfits need a place to get away, too. All that trying to fit in is exhausting.

I remember running up to my dad and saying, 'I want to be an actor when I grow up!' And him saying, 'Yeah, well we'll talk about it.'

At bottom are only two pure forms of legislation - productive and redistributive.

I suppose that for most people one of the darker joys of gardening is that once you've got started it's not at all hard to find someone who knows a little bit less than you.