I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry. – Felix Dennis
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. – Felix Dennis
I have an over-attachment to precision, which is why I’ve sold more magazines than any man alive. – Felix Dennis
America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage. – Felix Dennis
I’m an entrepreneur, a businessman. I’ve got a lot of money, and that doesn’t go very well with the whole ‘starving artist in a garret’ routine. – Felix Dennis
I write about whatever turns up. Every single day, I’m sitting down for three to five hours in the evenings wrestling away and producing far too much verse. – Felix Dennis
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. – Felix Dennis
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
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. – Felix Dennis
I hear poets complaining: ‘We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.’ – Felix Dennis
Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we’d get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails. – Felix Dennis
There are jobs, particularly database-oriented ones, for which computers are necessary, but for everyday office life, I question whether they have brought the productivity that their enormous cost, up to รด?10,000 per person, demands. – Felix Dennis
I only buy a computer when it’s two years old, after the glitches have been worked out. – Felix Dennis