People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

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 majority is the best way because it is visible and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.

Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.

No one is the same, and we all have different life experiences. It's not my place to judge them or for them to judge me. We should all be accountable for our own lives.

And took for truth the test of ridicule.

Care enough to make a difference. Care enough to turn somebody around. Care enough to change. Care enough to win.

Our present predicament comes from the fact that running the economy on blood is no longer fashionable. We can't end this depression with another war.

I got into acting because I wanted to act and I love acting. That's my true north: to be creative and to be challenged in what I love to do.

Rarely in my 45 years as a civil rights lawyer have I been so angry about an injustice as I am about what happened to Billy Ray Johnson

Life is not a journey, it is a destination

What is planted in each person's soul will sprout.