Dennis Cooper Quotes

when you see everything, you realize that nothing means anything ~ Dennis Cooper

Why is it I feel a new nostalgia for the era of the guillotine? ~ Dennis Cooper

I think pornography is a very rich medium, and I've studied it closely and learned quite a lot as a writer from it. ~ Dennis Cooper

I'm just some fingers resting lightly on a cursor as it slides magically around a kind of Ouija board. ~ Dennis Cooper

Dennis Cooper, God help him, is a born writer. ~ William S. Burroughs

When you see everything you realise nothing means anything. ~ Dennis Cooper

I [...] squarely and enthusiastically recommend ['Hey Boy' by A.W.W. Bremont][...]. [...][T]he start of a no doubt stellar oeuvre to come. ~ Dennis Cooper

Before I decided to concentrate on writing, I drew pictures and painted, and made Super 8 experimental movies. I was the singer in three rock bands, and I wrote and staged and acted in plays for kids in my neighborhood. So I was kind of all over the place in my interests and far-flung in terms of where my creativity wanted to end up. ~ Dennis Cooper

When I read Spencer Madsen's poetry, I not only feel awe because he's so good, one of the best, but I also think about how everything in the world is happening at the same time, and how the world we get to know is so heavily edited down. It's the hugest, weirdest feeling. I wish Spencer Madsen could be everywhere at once. I really love You Can Make Anything Sad. ~ Dennis Cooper

Does that convey my trauma? Shall I boringly compare myself to the biblical Egyptian spearmen tripping over themselves in the gushy mud and piles of flopping fish between the Red Sea's reconvening halves? ~ Dennis Cooper

I like flat black. It doesn't try to explain anything, and it's been hip since before I was born, I guess. ~ Dennis Cooper

Why do you think UFOs never land? Why don't ghosts just say hello? ~ Dennis Cooper

My novels tend to take a long time to become exactly what they're going to be. They're fluid messes until I've done a ton of editing and refining and rewriting. When I write novels, I always make related scrapbooks to help me organize and test my intentions. ~ Dennis Cooper

When I started writing
I was a sick teenaged
fuck inside who partly
thought I was the new
Marquis de Sade, a body
doomed to communicate
with Satan who was us-
ing my sickness as his
home away from home,
and there's your proof. ~ Dennis Cooper

Cult writer. It's a weird term because it's complimentary but condescending at the same time. ~ Dennis Cooper

I don't hafta taste it to know it taste funny. It already looks like it taste funny. ~ Dennis The Menace

When I'm with you, I feel like a different kind of man. I feel better than I've ever felt, but a man with all that good in his heart can't do what needs to be done. So I returned to the man who doesn't feel. I know I hurt you by doing that, but it was what needed to be done for me to survive. What I do for Cooper is about making people bleed before they do the same to us. That kind of job won't allow for mistakes just cause my heart belongs to a beautiful angel. ~ Bijou Hunter

I can't hit a ball more than 200 yards. I have no butt. You need a butt if you're going to hit a golf ball. ~ Dennis Quaid

She gave Cooper a quick nod, indicating she was going out the back, and didn't wait around to see if he understood her meaning. She pushed through the swinging doors to the small kitchen in the back, snagged the keys to her truck from the hook, and replaced them with her apron. She gave a quick glance to the grill, making sure Sandy hadn't left anything to burn on it when he'd been pulled out front, but everything looked in order. Stop stalling.
She sighed, shook her head, but the rueful smile that accompanied the movement was fleeting. For what might be the first time in her life, she had absolutely no idea how she was going to handle what came next.
"Only one way to find out," she murmured. Tightening her grip on her keys, if not her emotions, she let herself out the back door of the pub and found herself staring straight up into the crystalline blue eyes of Cooper Jax. ~ Donna Kauffman

No mistake. I shall regret the absence of your keen mind. Unfortunately it is inseparable from an extremely disturbing body. ~ Gary Cooper

An idle tongue is the mother of all conflicts. ~ Dennis E. Adonis

You have to be afraid of failure. You have to be terrified; it's the only force that will drive you mercilessly to succeed. ~ Aaron Dennis

Congress as a whole is less popular than it's been since polling was invented. ~ Jim Cooper

Writing songs with Brian and performing them with Al Jardine, Dennis Wilson, Carl Wilson, David Marks, Bruce Johnston and many other brilliant musicians over the years is my legacy, and something of which I am very proud and protective. ~ Mike Love

In my opinion, the ability to love another person is one of God's greatest gifts, and I thank God every day for enabling me to give and share love with the people in my life. ~ Anderson Cooper

Nobody could like Donald Trump, surely, except his mother. No one really likes The Donald. But how can you not have respect for a guy who's been down on the floor and just keeps coming back? Nothing will keep Donald Trump down until they drive a wooden stake in his heart and a silver bullet in his brain. ~ Felix Dennis

Could there possibly have been an incumbent more easy to knock-off than George W. Bush? A real-life opposition party would have been insulted to be matched with a such an unworthy and frail rival. The Democrats, by contrast, got their lights punched out. ~ Marc Cooper

Peter Cooper looks at the world with an artist's eye and a human heart and soul. His songs are the work of an original, creative imagination, alive with humor and heartbreak and irony and intelligence, with truth and beauty in the details. Deep stuff. And they get better every time you listen to them. ~ Kris Kristofferson

If you look at anything, there are always comedic moments. ~ Bradley Cooper

I'll take you to the deepest, darkest, hottest lover's lane for a little spark in the dark. ~ Alice Cooper

Age wins and one must learn to grow old. ~ Diana Cooper

If it flies, floats or fornicates, always rent it.. it's cheaper in the long run. ~ Felix Dennis

I want to help the helpless, but I don't want to help the clueless. ~ Dennis Miller

I think abortion's wrong, but it's none of my business to tell somebody what's wrong, he said. So I'm pro-choice. I want to keep my nose out of other people's personal business. I guess I fall into conservative when it comes to protecting the United States in a world where a lot of people hate the United States. ~ Dennis Miller

The boy's got problems, the boy's got stress, the boy's got a .38 hidden in his desk. ~ Alice Cooper

Second place is the first loser. ~ Dennis Anderson

They're a slow-moving lot, reporters. Slothlike. Weighed down by all that righteous indignation about the freedom of the press and the public's right to know, not to mention the liquid lunches they see as their constant due. Go out now and you're playing right into their grasping, ink-stained hands." He cocked an ear to the door. "I'm doing my best to protect your reputation here. It wouldn't do to have a serving wench caught in a compromising position with the lord of the manor."
"You don't have the cleavage to make a good serving wench, Eli. ~ Kate Meader

Two of the guys that were honorary Vampires - Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix - had died at 27. And they were certainly archangels in our group. ~ Alice Cooper

It says, loving doesn't change just because someone isn't there, or because time gets in the way, or even death. It's always with you, keeping you safe, it won't ever leave you. ~ Susan Cooper

Cooper leaned down and pressed his cheek against mine. "You're going to stay here and play pool. You'll eat lots of food and listen to my siblings act like idiots. I'll kiss all over you while wanting to do more than kiss. Then, I'll take you home with your stomach full and a smile on your beautiful face. That's what's going to happen here. If you can think of a reason you shouldn't have fun for the afternoon, I'm all ears. ~ Bijou Hunter

Watching him walk over, Alex mused that Eli Cooper was the sort of man who knew how to use his physicality. Beneath his handmade shirts and tailored suits, a street fighter hummed through every loose-limbed motion. But that impression did not extend to his face, which was structurally perfect. Skyscraper-high cheekbones. Superhero jaw. A mouth that should have a government warning. There were no signs of past trouble with a jealous husband or an abandoned girlfriend. No one had ever broken his nose. No one had busted his lip.
Strange, because her first instinct on seeing him was to roundhouse kick him into the next millennium. ~ Kate Meader

Knowledge isn't always powerful. Sometimes it's just heart-breaking. ~ Nigel Jay Cooper

For me, this is when the act of watching transforms into the act of witnessing.
To witness something implies a responsiveness, the response/ability of the viewer toward the performer. It is radically different from what we might call the 'consuming' gaze that says 'here, you entertain me, I bought a ticket, and I'm going to sit back and watch.' This traditional gaze doesn't want to get involved, doesn't want to give anything back. ~ Ann Cooper Albright

I won't say that all senior citizens who can't master technology should be publicly flogged, but if we made an example of one or two, it might give the others incentive to try harder. ~ Chuck Lorre

I see so many fools in this world that sometimes I could just go home and cry about what people do to themselves Hey, wake up, wake up, look here! Think a minute, think a minute. This is your life! You got, what, ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty years here, and you gonna be gone.' ~ J. California Cooper

The secret is that I am Italian. ~ Dennis Christopher

Your father ... doesn't work late for you to pinch his dinner. ~ Susan Cooper

I want a Mini-Cooper because it's fuel efficient, emissions efficient and all that stuff. It's small and better for the environment. I think that will be my next car. ~ Christina Ricci

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. ~ Felix Dennis

The library had become her solace. Her refuge.Books did not question or judge. They made safe companions. ~ Inglath Cooper

Kids need to be equipped for that. They need to learn to use that technology to keep the new economy going. ~ Dennis Moore

Be bold. Be brave. Don't thank your lucky stars. The stars can't hear you. ~ Felix Dennis

Without Your life I know there is no life. For I was dead in sin and You gave life to me! Without Your life I'd surely rather die! Lord Jesus, live Your life through me! You are life to me! ~ Dennis Jernigan

Drugs have played no significant factor in my life. ~ Dennis Brown

We play it differently now. If we did the album now it would be different. ~ Alice Cooper

You've got exactly twenty-seven hours and then I'm coming in there and trimming you down," Park said from above.

"Like your big head could fit," Cooper said. "And twenty-seven hours? It's 127 hours! What do you think, he sawed his own arm off after one day?"

"You want to make it twenty-seven minutes, Dayton?" Park said. ~ Charlie Adhara

There's a problem when we're creating a job you can't do if you have kids," Dennis Van Roekel, former president of the National Education Association, told me. "There are a lot of us who spend too much time working. But ultimately, you need time for family, time for community, time for church." According to a union executive who has negotiated charter school contracts across the country, at many schools teachers are expected to eat lunch with their students, and have no prep period to plan lessons. At others, when a teacher calls in sick, the school will not hire a substitute, but will instead require other teachers to fill in during their prep periods. At one Chicago charter school, teachers complained that they had so little free time during the day that they could not visit the bathroom. ~ Dana Goldstein

It's about ... my only strategy I've ever had in my career is to do as many different types of roles as possible, as many different types of genres. It keeps the fire in my belly. ~ Dennis Quaid

Having made a sufficient opening to admit my finger into the abdomen, I passed it between the intestines to the spine, and felt the aorta greatly enlarged, and beating with excessive force. By means of my finger nail, I scratched through the peritoneum on the left side of the aorta, and then gradually passed my finger between the aorta and the spine, and again penetrated the peritoneum, on the right side of the aorta. I had now my finger under the artery, and by its side I conveyed the blunt aneurismal needle, armed with a single ligature behind it ... ~ Astley Cooper

If you're going to have sex, use a condom. ~ Dennis Rodman

Shaq is not the man. He's the man because the NBA wants him to be the man, but before you can be the man, you've got to be the man. ~ Dennis Rodman

Make me laugh. Make me cry. Tell me my place in the world. Lift me out of my skin and place me in another. Show me places I have never visited and carry me to the ends of time and space. Give my demons names and help me to confront them. Demonstrate for me possibilities I've never thought of and present me with heroes who will give me courage and hope. Ease my sorrows and increase my joy. Teach me compassion. Entertain and enchant and enlighten me.
Tell me a story. ~ Dennis O'Neil

Finding patterns is the essence of wisdom ~ Dennis Prager