As for literature It gives no man a sinecure. And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece. And give up verse, my boy, There's nothing in 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.

If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it.

What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?

He is a man, who is to be a man, the fruit is always present in the seed.

Louis Maistros has an original and dark vision, full of power.

My main life lesson from investing: self-interest is the most powerful force on earth, and can get people to embrace and defend almost anything.

I mean 'One Tree Hill' had some rabid fans - you'd be surprised - they're almost in a class of their own.

Profitability is where growth takes place.

You never read about the real pain. It lives where no word can travel.

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

One of the few certainties in life is that persons of certainty should certainly be avoided.