Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

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.

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.

I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.

The temple of truth has never suffered so much from woodpeckers on the outside as from termites within.

Lava bread makes you passionate.

my face I don't mind it, Because I'm behind it-- 'Tis the folks in the front that I jar.

Is almost a good enough reason for fear?

BLOOD, SWEAT & RESPECT. First two you GIVE. Last one you EARN.

The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

Black Mafia. If they don't understand that, they ain't gangsta. I just watched TV and Bill Parcells kissed two or three of them boys...it's a Mafia thing.

It is a health care law [ObamaCare] that is basically forcing companies to lay people off, cut people's hours, move people to part-time. It is not just a bad health care law, it is a job-killing law.

The one word above all others that makes marriage successful is 'ours.'

And as if reporting some felony to the police they let you know you were not John Donne.