B.J. Penn Quotes

My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.

I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.

Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.

If entertainment ran grocery stores, we'd NEVER get oil cured olives or blue cheese, it would be JUST Coke.

I think life's an irrational obsession.

The medium is not the message - the message is the message.

How much do you have to hate somebody to not proselytize?

Comedy is taken care of by a free market.

TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows.

Tolerance is you saying something crazy and me smiling and saying, 'That's nice.'

I'm not good at talking to strangers, whether they're sick children or they're - I'm just not good. I'm shy with it.

The past is always a rebuke to the present.

He that lives in love lives in God.

Sometime in 1964 I realized that I was a victim of a printmaking obsession, a condition that persists today.

Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there.

You don’t have to be brave or a saint, a martyr, or even very smart to be an atheist. All you have to be able to say is “I don’t know”.

You don't have freedom unless you have the freedom to do stupid self-destructive things.

People are more afraid of the laws of Man than of God, because their punishment seems to be nearest.

You have to be careful as a libertarian because you can sound very Republican.

Most writers are trying to find what they think or feel. . . not simply working from the given, but toward the given, saying the unsayable and steadily asking, "What do I really feel about this?

Modern American magic, late 20th century magic, is tremendously disrespectful of the audience.

I am a huge fan of proselytizing. I am a huge fan of speaking your mind. The only way we can share the universe... is by talking very strongly about what we believe.

Do good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good.

If I go out to dinner with you and you order wine, I leave. I won't be around drugs and alcohol at all.

Where charity keeps pace with gain, industry is blessed.

Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.

A lot of people, to attack an outspoken atheist, one of the things they'll do is say, 'You are as bad as the fundamentalist Christians.' And my answer is always, 'I hope so.'

We have to fight for the freedom to be stupid, and smoking is one of the best ways to fight for your freedom, to be just as stupid as you can be.

Everybody prefers to see a nut - they're more fascinating.

I'd say honesty is always the best policy. There are always a lot of arguments - but even if honesty starts some, it avoids bigger ones.

Fear is the politicians dance partner.

Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.

The smaller the drink, the clearer the head, and the cooler the blood.

I think every person's parents teach them a lot and also mess them up royally.

The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

It comes down to having fun and doing what I love.

The humble, meek, merciful, and just are everywhere of one religion; and when death has taken off the mask they will know one another, though the diverse liveries they wear here make them strangers.

Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.

Having a Hummer is stupid. It's stupid to waste that much gas. It's stupid to waste that much money on gas. It's stupid to parade your insecurities on public roads. Hummers are stupid-looking.

The definition of a stupid thing is something that if you do everything right, you still get hurt. Fire-eating and love are stupid things.

Growing up, I always had two interests and two passions; one being public service and the other being the arts and acting.

If I had to imagine omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent power in the universe that chose to make my mother suffer, I don't know how I would make that make sense in the universe.

Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.

The printed page seems to have come to something of a dead end for all of us.

Bacon is so good by itself that to put it in any other food is an admission of failure. You're basically saying, 'I can't make this other food taste good, so I'll throw in bacon.'

The whole world is pretending the breakthrough is in technology. The bottleneck is really in art.

We need to stop arguing about Christ and start living like Christ.

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.

I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now, as I shall not pass this way again.

We have a call to do good, as often as we have the power and occasion.