The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.

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.

Every unknown is a beginning'.

People hate the idea of politicians, you see, but love the idea of authors, at least until they meet one.

The rich bought wonderful clothes you recognized. The richest had their pople go to Paris and buy the entire new collection that no one outside of the fashion house has seen.

The Irish and British, they love satire, its a large part of the culture.

Reichert offers us a Heracleitean stream of self-reflection into which we can step more than once, for we can see ourselves empathically mirrored in it: his interiority is our own.

The woods would be quiet if no bird sang but the one that sang best.

The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.

This capacity to go beyond the factors of conditioning is one of the obvious advantages of the human person.

Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both.

That which does not kill me can only make me stronger.