B.S. Johnson Quotes

I guess we resist changing, because we are afraid of change.

When you change what you believe, you change what you do.

Pain is the difference between what is and what I want it to be.

The man realized that what counted was not where a person lived, but how a person lived.

Sometimes, Hem, things change and they are never the same again. This looks like one of those times. That's life! Life moves on. And so should we.

I throw as hard as I can when I think I have to throw as hard as I can.

To a mouse, cheese is cheese. That is why mouse traps are effective.

Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.

men do not suspect faults which they do not commit

It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote.

The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged to speak the truth.

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

Some men can love forever, some for six years, some for six months, and others for six hours.

The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer's sense of what a story wants to be is only vaguely visible through the penumbra of inspiration.

I don't talk with everybody because i am not everybody, i am single.

It doesn't really matter if you are left behind the back, but what matters is your capacity to pull and push everyone by your way to get to the front.

Every time you try to flirt with her, a puppy dies.

My final word: don't follow your dreams . . . chase them. With a stick, or a shovel, or whatever you have handy. Get that [bleep]ing dream!

Hey! Jack the Wanker! Over here! I want your autograph!

Real men don't dance to other people's tune, instead, they play for others to dance.

We are all living history, and it’s hard to say now what will be important in the future. One thing’s certain, though: if we throw it away, it’s gone.

Money is for doing things, my love. Don't sit on it like a hen sits on an egg. It doesn't hatch. I should know. I've made enough of it.

She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her knees and give birth from it, she wanted to hurt me as only a child can be hurt by its mother.

I looked at an angel today, but the angel could not see me. The angel was more amazing than beautiful, like the best forgotten dream.

We simply can’t feel fulfilled by love we pay for.

Impulsive passion please set me free.

Joys circular fulfillment was so persistent, when I was weak it gave me strength.

Frequent friction when love becomes political.

Your mind is like a tunnel that has no end, and a baloon, that even too much air cannot burst.

Blessed are those that know the path out of their carnal flesh, for they shall attain intuition.

For you to make your creative work creative, you must seek creativity from the creator.

When people believe that what you believe is what they believe, they turn you into a belief.

Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.

I imagine the whole universe moving into hell because of licking God's candy.

How convinced are you that man was created in the image of God when you can't see the image of God?

Having a relationship with people of questionable character is like playing with a razor blade on your skin, and pretending to observe that it is harmful to your body.

Gods are what people worship. Men are what die.

Don't act so callous to blank out good friends who failed on their way to success, just because something unusual hindered them, but you meandered out by a stroke of luck.

A person could last a long while without touch, but once someone had experienced the comfort, joy, and sheer relief of another human body close, the desire to experience that again was hard to deny.

We ascribe meanings because it is our nature to do so..We can no more see a thing without searching for a meaning than we can see a snag in a robe without pulling on the loose thread.

Don't become a random photograph in the eyes of friends, and even your enemies, for each glance at your face will cause a declination of value and reputation. Create value, through scarcity.

It was as if the news itself wanted to reassure me. Even Jack the Ripper himself had reappeared as part of the greeting committee.

Adventures are what happens when an event is flawed, a mark of imperfection.

I wish that I could fly into the sky and touch the clouds with my hands.

Men take care of your responsibilities with maturity.

Love is serious and tolerant. Magnificent and noble.

You will know who truly loves you when you ask them to do an uncoventional favor.

We do not owe any soul, except that which played the most vital role in our lives.