What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.

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.

You can do it even if everyone says you can’t while your mind says you can. You cannot do it if your mind says you can’t while everyone says you can!

Happiness resides in your mind. Never infect your mind with negative thoughts or happiness will fly away.

Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat?

Honour without profit is a ring on the finger.

Believe in yourself, work hard, work smart and passionately present your best self to the world.

This is an area where North Carolina does excel. I have known more colorful North Carolina political figures than I have colorless ones.

One of the things I would love to do is Axe Cop, which is a comic book. I would like to be involved in Axe Cop someday. I would also love to be in a Western.

Women have to learn where their true source of validation is.

I had wanted to make a film about World War II for some time, but I didn't really want to do something that was set in the trenches, so to speak.

Rooting is following, and I don't do that, but I'd like to see the Phillies win because I love Philadelphia.