I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.

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 humbles a rich man better than a poor man that isn’t willing to do ‘anything’ for money.

It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.

He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality, marking vulnerable points.

Truth is, I cut my hair for freedom, not for beauty.

Before men ever wrote in clay they cast their words in verse and line, rythymbound in poets' minds, defying time and age.

The motive force of history is truth and not lies.

You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees.

I try to be bad, but nobody will let me.

I like giving. Doing something for somebody else feels good.

Where I fit in is confusing to me.