If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.

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.

Solitude always gives birth to something.

Urgency and despair don't get along well.

Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.

I'm going to wake up tomorrow and start with not caring how I feel. That's going to feel great.

If I did not love America, I wouldn't have moved here from Kenya.

It doesn't happen all the time, but in the moments where you really lose yourself and you fall into this character, it's like time travel.

Fetching objects for people who are too lazy to fetch them for themselves is never a pleasant task, particularly when the people are insulting you.

Mom was always doing something for somebody. She came from a Czech background, one that made her a devout Catholic and gave her a strong belief in the family.

It's not the fur or the fangs that make you a monster, not always. Sometimes, it's just where you draw the line.

Abandonment by a lover won't kill us. But it awakens the parts of us that remember when it could.