Artists are the antennae of the race but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.

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.

When soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

Sometime we must visit old memories to make new ones.

I can actually cook one meal now, as opposed to before, when I could cook nothing. My family are very excited.

My mother kept alive the best part for my sister and me. At the same time, she's always been someone who's very straight and solid, which wasn't that -common in families with "'68er" parents.

There are no planes in the spiritual life; we are either going uphill or coming down.

Do good and throw it in the sea; if God doesn't see it, the fishes will.

One thing I think I've always felt about being in nature is that it's a very natural taste.

Luck, you see, brings bitter friends.

He who protests is an enemy; he who opposes is a corpse.

I always gave my moms and pops the utmost respect. I didn't talk back to my peoples. The way they presented themselves to us, we knew. Don't talk back to moms and pops.