Felix Dennis Quotes
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I'm very proud of the fact that I'm one of Britain's biggest selling poets. That gives me a huge amount of pleasure.
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I never sue journalists. I employ journalists. I employ too many of them. I don't sue journalists.
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Money is power. Power is an aphrodisiac.
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I love the business of business; I love the risk raking.
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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Publishing magazines for yourself is not good business, man.
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I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it when I die - and in the end I'd like to think that it will be 20 to 30,000 acres.
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Everything I publish is for my readers.
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You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.
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The climate has been changing since there was a climate.
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America is not the center of the universe.
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Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.
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This modern mania for interfering in other's lives, usually under the guise of health and safety concerns, is highly irritating and counterproductive. Down with the nanny state.
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You shouldn't go around the world behaving ruthlessly when you don't have to. Sometimes you do have to. There is only so much pie to go around. If you're going to take more than your fair share of pie, as socialists would look at it, then someone else is not getting his. That means you've got to take it away from them.
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You can collect all the plastic bottle caps you want as long as you give me the money so we can get off this death trap, find somewhere else and have tremendous fun screwing that up as well.
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The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it.
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I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.
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I have an over-attachment to precision, which is why I've sold more magazines than any man alive.
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In the end, the railroads made America and nanotech will make the 21st century, and that is the end of the story. The beginning of the story and the end of the story.
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No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it.
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You cannot properly bring up children when you are 69 or 70 and they are 12 and at the height of their madness. You can physically do it, but I don't think it's morally justified.
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When you're writing, you're in a totally different zone... I can start a difficult poem and look up at the clock and see to my astonishment that three hours have passed.
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I should have liked to get married, but over many decades I have lived essentially alone. I go to sleep when I'm tired, get up when I wake up, have my food prepared when I'm hungry. I can't bear the thought that I'd have to coincide, make an effort.
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I thoroughly object to getting old. If you could let me be 16 again, I'd give you everything I've got and everything I'll ever have.