Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

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 people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick.

If you want to be strong, smile! He who can smile, even when he's so sad that he wants to die, when it's so painful that he wants to give it all up and run away, is the one who becomes strong.

At any moment we can demonstrate our faith by taking action that shows our belief in God's promises!

Since the baptismal rebirth takes place only with the one Bride of Christ, where could he be born who is not a son of the Church?

If you love music, than you can play music.

I often feel that my life, much like my shows, will end on a cliffhanger.

I am convinced that floods of personal disaster can never drown a determined revolutionary nor can the cumulus of misery that accompanies tragedy suffocate him.

God made only one you and He threw the mold away.

The world 's a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and Nature do with actors fill.

patience is an integral part of talent.