It doesn't matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.

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.

You'll know I love you when you're not making out with my friends.

I am a diamond But people see me as goldHonestly, I wanna be silver

Rejection is a common occurrence. Learning that early and often will help you build up the tolerance and resistance to keep going and keep trying.

I never even believed in happiness. I didn't think it existed. Now look at me. I'm ready to believe in just about anything.

If we're serious about building an economy that lasts, we have got to get serious about education. We are going to have to pick up our games and raise our standards.

The music is in no way politically based - I'm not trying to make a point about sampling. It may bring up issues but I'm not trying to push it on anyone.

Throwing young people on the scrap heap is a public health emergency.

Children were pack animals; let any one of them act different from the group, and the rest would bring him down.

Damn me to hell or take me to heaven, but for Gods sake, do it now.

You can have nothing to fear.