'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!

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.

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.

False belief is more emotional than true belief

If you encase yourself in stone like a fossil, you’ll have an existence, but not a life.

As an anonymous wit is supposed to have put it: "Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas which, given enough time, changes into people.

And so you're afraid of the emptiness of your friend's life. But there's no emptiness in the life of a man of knowledge, I tell you. Everything is filled to the brim and everything is equal.

There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.

I'm pretty happy for someone who struggles with happiness.

[On her father's death:] I didn't know his leaving would hurt so much.

Truly time should be measured by events, and not by the lapse of hours.

Those who run to long words are mainly the unskillful and tasteless; they confuse pomposity with dignity, flaccidity with ease, and bulk with force.

We've never been in a time where mothers - parenthood, but particularly motherhood - is so fetishized.