Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.

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 philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.

We will be a mighty nation, if we build each other.

Sometimes she is struck by how much she goes through life almost unconsciously. She is being swept along. She is a pale ghost.

I am a veteran of the War on Christmas. I am just emerging from a battlefield strewn with dead trees and torn shreds of brightly colored wrapping paper.

Desire leaves us heartbroken; it wears us out.

It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children

Intellectuals incline to be individualists, or even independents, are not team conscious and tend to regard obedience as a surrender of personality.

Never, never did I think I would be in a Disney movie.

When you control the ball you control the score

I live in Realville, and my problem is that I'm governed by logic. And some of the claims that are made by people on the left just don't hold up.