Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.

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.

The moment our lips met, I knew with pure and piercing certainty that I would have waited for him forever.

You and I have the decision to decide what we are going to be with our life! Or we can let the paradigm control us and march along in lockstep type fashion.

You're like a song I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew untill I heard it again

There two things that are infinite, human stupidity and the universe, I don't know about the universe

We could get kinky and see how bats and rats make love, he suggested in a whisper, warm breath against her neck. You are a sick man, Jacques. Very, very sick.

Who we are is the result of how we live and act on a daily basis. Our daily actions reflect our prime values and motivations.

Arrogance and fanaticism cause the hardening of positions taken and entrenchment can only lead to a dead end.

So to some extent he [Barack Obama] is a victim of the expectations and the high hopes that we experienced.

We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.

I'll attend all my team's games