All great art is born of the metropolis.

The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.

The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.

Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.

As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, When the hot water gives out or goes tepid, So is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, O my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.

The ant's a centaur in his dragon world.

'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!

What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.

I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.

You might want more time in your life to attempt the things you like to do, and not just perform the things you have to do.

Wanted: Steel toed Bible thumpers to reach a monster truck mad world.

The harshest winter finds an invincible summer in us.

The way I think about things and experience things is not particularly linear, and it's not orderly, and it's not pyramidical, and there are a lot of loops.

All I have is an opinion - I don't deal in Truth.

By the way, I'm funniest when I'm not being funny. I'm better to laugh at than with, pretty much.

I am really honoured but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me I would have been more honoured

Hollywood would much prefer the author be dead, so that they can buy the book and do what they want to do with it.

What follows I flee; what flees I ever pursue.

I am sure that inspiration will strike multiple times - it always does.