small talk comes from small bones

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.

I rather now strive to reach rather than wait to receive!

Historically, nature has been very good at surprising us.

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

I wonder what you look like under your t-shirt. I wonder what you sound like when you're not wearing words. I wonder what we have when we're not pretending.

Men must stop being jealous of their power and generously allow freedom and responsibility to others. The reward is harmonious families and society.

Hence it is that the shape of something is especially meaningful.

the more you live the more things reflect all around you!!!!

I do not want to go back to the past; I want to go back to the past way of facing the future.

You want success and then when you do get it, you don't want it because of the attention.

I'm a lyric man - I'm always looking for meaningful songs.