Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

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.

When you forgive, you immerse yourself in healing waters.

I've always been told my presence brightened up any room. One might think that went doubly for dank underground cell." (Jace)

Inaction is the worst action of human beings!

A cat is only technically an animal, being divine.

We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.

Bringing up children is not a real occupation, because children come up just the same, brought or not.

Fasting and natural diet, though essentially unknown as a therapy, should be the first treatment when someone discovers that he or she has a medical problem.

I was not allowed to take notes but my friend and I memorised those two and a half pages. Most people talked to me because of the warning. They knew this book was not going to be the official line.

Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but enjoyed.

I used to live an isolated existence, even in relationships, but now my family knows me for who I really am. Mostly, that's a good thing.