John Berryman Quotes

Today, the tide has turned, we are destroying them.

Humanity is a virus.

What a strange creature man is that he fouls his own nest.

I see a lot of homes that are supercool, and everything is very tasteful, but it's not warm. I'm really scared of rooms that look too serious.

Perfection would be something that you see in 'Architectural Digest.'

All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.

I'm fascinated by furniture design and interiors, and I want to try designing all that stuff.

The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.

As we kill nature, we are killing ourselves, and God incarnate as the world as well.

Life seems sadly mishandled by humans, as if it's all too much for them - they spend so much time and energy hurting each other, making things worse, and fouling their own nest, all because they imagine things aren't good enough and should be made much better.

There's something very romantic about self-destruction and sabotaging your life, and taking a hammer to it.

It's pure Black Label. It's about violence and booze. That's all it is. There is no plan.

This philosophy of something for nothing, the cult of individual and government irresponsibility is an insidious cancer that will destroy us as a people unless we recognize it and root it out now.

I've always been very into interior design, and I can't stand to have anything in my apartment that I don't aesthetically love.

I got shoes literally all over my house.

My parents both flipped homes. A typical weekend for us was walking through model home units. I loved walking through interesting floor plans and seeing different design aesthetics.

I have a tendency to dip my foot in self-destructive behavior.

My secret desire is to be an interior designer. I'd love to make houses for rich clients who can afford to do things right.

A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.

The first real terror struck him then, and there was nothing supernatural about it. It was only a realization of how easy it was to trash your life. That was what was so scary. You just dragged the fan up to everything you had spent the years raking together and turned the motherfucker on.

My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has got to go.

The creature that wins against its environment destroys itself.

I want to do interiors, furniture. I want to do architecture, although I'm not an architect. Nor am I a trained interior designer.

I love to decorate and redecorate. Now it's called interior design, but the term decorating is fine with me.

Present thinking people kill the future.