Michael P. Naughton > Quotes

“The key to good writing is to leave Boo Radley in the house until the end of the story.”
― Michael P. Naughton

“You will never know loneliness when you have a dog, when you lose that dog it will be loneliness like you've never known.”
― Michael P. Naughton

“Social Media is a shared delusion of grandeur.”
― Michael P. Naughton, Deathryde: Rebel Without a Corpse

“Things don't happen for a reason, we make reasons out of things that happen.”
― Michael P. Naughton

“History's greatest composers world be rolling in their graves if they knew that their beautiful compositions were reduced to distorted hold music.”
― Michael P. Naughton, Deathryde: Rebel Without a Corpse

“Don't just do what is required, do what is respected then, at you'll know, you did the right thing even if it works out wrong.”
― Michael P. Naughton

“You don't have to reinvent the wheel... just steal the hubcaps.”
― Michael P. Naughton

“History's greatest composers would be appalled to hear their greatest works reduced to distorted hold music for businesses.”
― Michael P. Naughton

“I didn't grow up in a Norman Rockwell house... my house was more akin to Norman Lear.”
― Michael P. Naughton

“Comment sections on the internet are like gang graffiti, abusive words sprayed like gibberish and it's ugly to look at.”
― Michael P. Naughton, Deathryde: Rebel Without a Corpse

“They say you can't cheat death, well that doesn't stop these guys from trying.”
― Michael P. Naughton, Deathryde: Rebel Without a Corpse

“The media is no longer the message. It's the malware.”
― Michael P. Naughton

“When everyone is famous, no one will be famous.”
― Michael P. Naughton

“There's nothing quite like the sound of chainsaws over morning coffee.”
― Michael P. Naughton

“Be the competition you wish to see in the world.”
― Michael P. Naughton, Deathryde: Rebel Without a Corpse

“I don't see the world through stained glass windows.”
― Michael P. Naughton

“We all have to restart somewhere.”
― Michael P. Naughton

“The media is the malware.”
― Michael P. Naughton

“Twitter has become many users "Two Minutes of Hate" platform. Sad.”
― Michael P. Naughton

“The comment section of the internet is like gang graffiti, it makes no sense and is ugly to look at.”
― Michael P. Naughton, Deathryde: Rebel Without a Corpse

“Don’t just do what is required, do what is respected.
Then at least you’ll know you did the right thing,
even if it works out wrong.”
― Michael P. Naughton

“Whoever said: “Bed is the poor man's Opera,” was wrong... being broke isn't sexy.”
― Michael P. Naughton

“Your reciept is your library card."
-- On what killed the brick and mortar bookstores.”
― Michael P. Naughton, Deathryde: Rebel Without a Corpse

“Poetry is not for profit. Poetry is for Posterity.”
― Michael P. Naughton

“Are we living life, or is life living us?”
― Michael P. Naughton, Deathryde: Rebel Without a Corpse

“Sometimes death is just a coin toss.”
― Michael P. Naughton, Deathryde: Rebel Without a Corpse

“Rock is not dead, but it is The Walking Dead, with a few groups still trying to survive in a zombie apocalypse of musicians or fringe and splintered groups.”
― Michael P. Naughton

“Social Media Distancing is a practice of distancing oneself, and in some cases blocking, banning or ignoring toxic people and misinformation disseminated on social media platforms during a pandemic, epidemic or crisis.”
― Michael P. Naughton

“Freedom of Speech has become Freedom of Stupidity on the internet. Some ignominious users should not be given a voice to comment at all.”
― Michael P. Naughton, Deathryde: Rebel Without a Corpse