“… what makes an object beautiful has nothing to do with its usefulness or its exchange value.”

“Art, if it can be ascribed value, is most valuable when its beauty (and the beauty of the truth it tells) bewilders, confounds, defies evil itself; it does so by making what has been unmade; it subverts the spirit of the age; it mends the heart by whispering mysteries the mind alone can’t fathom; it fulfills its highest calling when into all the clamor of Hell it tells the unbearable, beautiful, truth that Christ has died, Christ is risen, and Christ will come again. None of these songs and stories matter if the beauty they’re adding to isn’t the kind of beauty that redeems and reclaims.”

“It's not the side-effects of the cocaine - I'm thinking that it must be love.It's too late to be grateful,It's too late to be hateful,It's too late to be late again,The European canon is here.- Station to Station”

“If it works, it's out of date.”

“No more free steps to heaven.- It's No Game”

“There's a taste in my mouth and it's no taste at all.- Queen Bitch”

“This is a mad planet," David Bowie said in 1971. "It's doomed to madness.”