I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.

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.

Nothing happens without action!

... it's a bad sign when someone drinks a lot and doesn't laugh.

Pessimist - one who when he has the choice of two evils chooses both.

There has been a lot of expectation on Manchester City and with the spending they have done they have to win something. Sometimes you have a noisy neighbor and have to live with it.

Comfort becomes a goal when distinctions of rank are abolished and privileges destroyed.

History is merely a list of surprises... It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

The Monmouth Coffee Shop is the best place in London

Work is the best wonder drug ever devised by God.

The critic is the duenna in the passionate affair between playwrights, actors and audiences - a figure dreaded, and occasionally comic, but never welcome, never loved.

Art has no immediate future, because all art is collective and there is no more collective life.