The artist is the antenna of the race.

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.

It's easier to surrender to confinement.

I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career.

Champions never brag, never shout, never have to go to extremes to build themselves up for others or put others down. They let their actions, deeds, and results speak for them.

I'm kinda like herpes, I just keep coming back.

No man can instruct more than half-a-dozen students at once. The whole problem of education is one of its cost in money.

We don't know what may yet happen to us, what military and political defeats we may yet have to face.

I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly disparity between age and youth.

Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.

By taking elements you observe in life, you can develop qualities in your acting life that you don't ordinarily call upon in your personal life.

The perfection of rottenness.