where the dead walked and the living were made of cardboard.

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 reach higher heights by faith.

Long is the night to him who is awake

You get kind of bored being in catalogues all the time.

Without men, civilization would last until the oil needed changing.

Maybe there's a trapdoor under my chair, and I'll just disappear.

Do people conform to the instructions of us old ones? Each thinks he must know best about himself, and thus many are lost entirely.

Love creates bridges much more than all the engineers of the world!

I’d like to see a forklift lift a crate of forks. It’d be so damn literal! You are using that machine to it’s exact purpose!

World barista champions use the AeroPress to make coffee on the folding tray tables of airplanes.

Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer.