It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.

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.

Stand tall like a tower of God.

A spirit of satirical frivolity so dominated Britain in the 1960s that one critic feared the country "would sink giggling into the sea.

Tom Brady is good, real good...but he plays in same league as I do.

I tried to be all intellectual and erudite and with others I'd just swear and curse and be an idiot. And suddenly, when they're all in one space, I don't know who I am.

The courage to work with ourselves comes as basic trust in ourselves, as a sort of fundamental optimism.

You will either offend the world and please God, or please the world and offend God.

Far more than any other power, imagination is what sets human beings apart from every other species on earth.

I love different themes, different venues, different movies. I love to jump about and tackle different subjects. I have no intellectual master plan.

Don't whine... laugh.

I was taught not to confront and interrupt people, but that's what I do every day on 'The View.'