Don't be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.

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.

A woman with vision is unstoppable, a woman who is always increasing her skills multiplies. Along with passion this woman is undeniable.

Wherever you go, there you are. You would just have different problems. Are the problems you have now so bad that any other problems would be better?

I looked at her for three seconds, or five perhaps, with fearful hatred-that hate which is only a hair's-breath from love, from the maddest love!

To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

I'd rather suffer the consequences of truth than of silence.

Fate leads the willing, and th' unwilling draws.

I go game to game, at-bat to at-bat. That's my way.

The elephant needs a thousand times more food than the ant but that is not an indication of inequality.

The human sigh for peace and love is answered and compensated by divine love.

What, in the name of common-sense, had I to do with any better society than I had always lived in?