Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.

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.

My life is quite a blissful adventure because my thoughts are constantly working in my favor. I hope yours are not working against you?

Man to woman

When you are surrounded by the people who do not see the world as you see it, you will be the loneliest of the lonely!

With money in your pocket you are wise and you are handsome and you sing well too.

The struggle to maintain peace is immeasurably more difficult than any military operation.

I would still give my left ball to write anything as good as OK Computer.

The longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think, and the more anxiously I inquire, the less I seem to know...Do justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly [with your God]. This is enough.

When I'm in love with a woman, seeing her in something cozy makes me not want to let go of her when I'm holding her.

There was an advert I rather liked. Devastated woman: "I've just seen the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse!" Husband: "Never mind, love, it's not the end of the world."

I had been in the ditch for 2 and a half min. I wondered if my friends missed me.