The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.

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.

He who hunts deer must not boast to he who hunts buffalo.

You cannot run a multimillion-dollar business like you would a lemonade stand.

A whole generation of young whites have involved themselves with traditional Negro music.

A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.

Being the leader means you have to make life or death decisions sometimes.

I don't believe that less fortunate people should have to wait until a movie is released on public TV for free, while richer people get to see it months in advance.

Many prayers are declined because of the rank odor of a corrupt heart, rising through the beautiful words. Let the words be wrong but the meaning right. . . . That flawed utterance is dearer to God!

Read as much as you can, discarding negative or disturbing information. Learn by doing, and the Goddess and God will bless you with all that you truly need.

It appears to me that men are trying to speak for God instead of letting God speak for himself.

The darkness is at its deepest. Just before the sunrise.