Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea.

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.

if you want to be understood ...Listen.

Man hath no Heaven and Time's coast is chartless. He speeds; we pass away!

Governments will always misuse the machinery of the law as far as the state of public opinion permits.

Think of Instagram. Journalism will continue to exist, but communication is now visual.

God's relation to spirits is not like that of a craftsman to his work, but also like that of a prince to his subjects.

Observing and understanding are two different things.

I say this as a young dad seeing children going into primary school: I don't think we should underestimate the formative effect on a child of those first years in primary school.

I would probably have been very content as a scholar to have carried on organising exhibitions and writing books and teaching.

Hatred toward any human being cannot exist in the same heart as love to God.

Tis in my memory lock'd, And you yourself shall keep the key of it.