Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

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.

During the course of my research on #herbs mentioned in the #Bible, I found that #pomegranate is regarded as a wonder #fruit in many other.

People said Ove saw the world in black and white. But she was color. All the color he had.

We do not want to live in a theocracy. We should maintain that barrier and government has no business telling someone what they ought to believe or how they should conduct their private lives.

Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.

There's no hall of fame for that working class hero, no statue carved out of stone. And his greatest reward is the love of a woman and his children.

We did everything we could to break down barriers that restrain poorest.

We see the moon, don't we? So it's our eye. Animals see us, don't they? So we're their animals.

The songs are all indexes of a time in the past when I was writing them.

There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are, but through the jungles of self, the world, and of craft.

A young woman in her teens has about 300,000 eggs in her ovaries. By the time she is menopausal, none are left.