To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.

A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned.

Well done is better than well said.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

You can do anything you set your mind to.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is. Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.

The universe gets more disorderly all the time.

Marketing shouldn't feel like marketing. It should feel like a story.

Leigh [Bowery] would make up stories about people committing suicide or going on hunger strikes because they were refused entry at the door.

People talk about me because I am a great man

Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger

Poetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience; it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm's length.

Ultimately, I know what I'm doing and why I'm doing it. I'm trying to be a construction worker. I'm trying to make things. If people are not interested in that, fine. I just don't give a damn.

I recommend you stick to your own species, Shy Babe." p. 155

I'll rebel against powers and principalities, all the time. Always, I will.

Publishers are humane men, and rarely commit crimes. Authors, however, are a hardened set, who usually perpertrate a felony every time they issue a book.