John Dryden Quotes

If you actually read the 'New Gods' tetralogy, this epic without an ending, it's like dipping your head into madness. You feel a little bit like the Joker for a little while. And I mean that in the best way possible.

I never cared so much about making perfect sense. I wanted to make perfect nonsense.

No more rhymes now I mean it!” “Anybody want a peanut?” “AAHH!

Agent Jones held Sinjin’s face in his hands. “I’m going to make balloon animals. People need balloon animals.” “How right you are, strange delusional man,” Sinjin said.

Life is a B Movie: it's stupid and it's strange, it's a directionless story, the dialogue is lame, but in the 'he said she said' sometimes there's some poetry, if you turn your back long enough and let it happen naturally.

She ran after the garbage truck, yelling, "Am I too late for the garbage?" "No, jump in!"

I'm writing a poem right now about a nose. I've always wanted to write a poem about a nose. But it's a ludicrous subject. That's why, when I was younger, I was afraid of something that didn't make a lot of sense. But now I'm not. I have nothing to worry about. It doesn't matter.

That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

Adventure is just bad planning.

Reality really is theater. There's no other way to describe it. It's all so nonsensical, ridiculous and chaotic.

Politics is the food of sense exposed to the hunger of folly.

Music is chaos. When I write songs, I'm opening the door to madness.

I like wee arguments, I've never been into jokes. I'm more into strange things and madness and things escalating and things not really making sense.

Art is not the kind of thing where you get what you put into it all the time. So I learned to not expect anything other than the sort of joy of having a poem in front of me.

The amount of silliness that happens to me is insane.

I've always been a little out of control since I was a kid.

But God!Who could live like this , anyway, with the kind of guesswork that was enough to make a person crazy, just sailing along, taking bumps here and there, no course navigated whatsoever, with any big wave capable of just tipping and sinking you entirely. IT was madness, stipidity, and- (then I saw him)

The earth is a great piece of stupidity.

Adventure is a sign of incompetence.

It's just a crazy damned life, that's all.

Art and work and art and life are very connected and my whole life has been absurd. There isn't a thing in my life that has happened that hasn't been extreme - personal health, family, economic situations...absurdity is the key word.

The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.

The only really sane person in there is Igor, and possibly the turnip. And I'm not sure about the turnip.