The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.

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.

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.

I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.

we become like that which we worship.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you.

You contain a universe inside yourself. There's no end to it - your conscious, your subconscious. There is no limit to what's inside you. We are very much connected. There's no end to it.

Peacemakers not only live, they rule life.

It is folly to say you know what is happening to other people. Only they know, if they exist. They have their own Universes of their own eyes and ears.

Some women have a weakness for shoes... I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.

There's one novel, Cujo, that I barely remember writing at all.

A complaining tongue reveals an ungrateful heart.