Northrop Frye Quotes

As comics if you aren't rubbing people the wrong way, to me, you suck.

In Jesus Christ, there is no distance or separation between the medium and the message: it is the one case where we can say that the medium and the message are fully one and the same.

Satire is meant to have teeth; satire is meant to be dangerous. But it also happens to be fun because subversion and telling the right kind of people to go to hell is supposed to feel good.

Mysticism is in fact the only criticism people cannot level against my theory.

The new school of art and thought does indeed wear an air of audacity, and breaks out everywhere into blasphemies, as if it required any courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.

That the world is, is the mystical.

Anybody who notices unpleasant facts in the have-a-nice-day world we live in is going to be designated a curmudgeon.

Do I have a message? Yes, I do. Here's my message: as scary as the world is – and it is – it is merely a ride ...

Religions are such stuff as dreams are made of.

...There are too many idiots in this world. And having said it, I have the burden of proving it.

Any profound view of the world is mysticism. It has, of course, to deal with life and the world, both of which are nonrational entities.

No God can put a man in hell in another world, who has made a little heaven in this. God cannot make a man miserable if that man has made somebody else happy.

Music addresses us from beyond the borders of the natural world

Society, to be sure, does not like this very well; it saith, Whoso goes to walk alone, accuses the whole world; he declares all to be unfit to be his companions; it is very uncivil, nay, insulting; Society will retaliate.

The whole planet reeks of mysticism without revelation.

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night.

May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.

The transcendent experience is common to every culture in the world.

The only right way: to love and serve the man of the modern world, but not simply to succumb, with him, to all his illusions about the world.

We're being treated to the wisdom of some puffed up, little fart. Doing exactly what I used to do, pretensions to anarchy and art.

I feel that all the messages in the Conversations with God dialogues came from God. And many of them have been considered radical.

The only good reason to have money is this: so that you can tell any SOB in the world to go to hell.

Hinduism with its message of ahimsa is to me the most glorious religion in the world.

Every group, every system has a set of values and morals and when you get outside those, then the alarms ring. I was politically incorrect to 95% of the country; luckily my 5% had the bread to come see me.

Rumi is perhaps the greatest mystical poet who ever lived, one of the greatest poets of the Persian language. He was able to express practically all aspects of the spiritual life and our existential situation in the world today as human beings in beautiful Persian poetry.