A biography for Felix Dennishasn’t been written yet.
“I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.”
“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.”
“Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.”
“'The Week' is my favourite magazine. Everyone from presidents to CEOs of companies love it, politicians, people in the massive charity business in America, in the arts and even more especially in the media.”
“What is negotiation but the accumulation of small lies leading to advantage?”
“As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.”
“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.”
“I couldn't care less what anyone's 'perception' of me is. I'm too long in the tooth to care.”
“When I see something that's wrong, I just speak and act first and I'll take the consequences later.”
“When I was young, I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.”
“I have been portrayed by actors in three television documentaries, two plays, one musical and a film. It's no fun watching yourself being traduced and imitated by an actor.”
“Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.”
“There is never a time in a company's history when cost control can be relegated to the back burner, but for a startup company, keeping costs low is a vital necessity.”
“I cannot abide being bored.”
“The climate has been changing since there was a climate.”
“No woman or girl is going to want to spend time looking at pretty dresses on the Internet. Vogue is going to be around for a long time to come.”
“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.”
“Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.”
“You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.”
“It's kind of a crazy thing to decide that you're going to be worth tens and tens and tens of millions of dollars and set out to do that. It doesn't suit everybody.”