Properly, we should read for power.

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.

No one can save me except myself.

To be in Christ -- that is redemption

What's done can't be undone, but at least you can keep it from happening again.

Chet Atkins... is probably the best guitar player who ever lived.

Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.

Senior year is supposed to be about being mentally done.

The most important thing... was to change their spirit; and since at that time I felt that literature was the best means to this end, I decided to promote literary movement.

Laugh, if thou art wise.

We came whirling out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust... The stars made a circle, and in the middle, we dance.

It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.