And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass

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.

All great art is born of the metropolis.

'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.

The great commandment is that we preach the gospel to every creature, but neither God nor the Bible says anything about forcing it down people's throats.

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

Persuading people through technology is the next social revolution. Facebook demonstrates just how powerful it will be.

Only Heaven will reveal the top part of God's tapestry

Private capitalism makes a steam engine; State capitalism makes pyramids.

There are many ways to store power. You can visit places of power, special locations on the earth that are charged with power.

Wood halfe burnt is easily kindled. [Wood half-burnt is easily kindled.]

A ridiculous passion which hath no being but in play-books and romances.

Get out of your house in the middle of a rainstorm, get soaked in it, and then strip down-to nothing but a smile.

Anything that's worth anything is complicated.