Everywhere men have unlocked the prisoners within, and from under the disguising skins the apes have leapt joyfully out.

In reality, killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which Time kills us.

Blood is that fragile scarlet tree we carry within us.

The artist, like the idiot or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him over it.

The only difference between an artist and a lunatic is, perhaps, that the artist has the restraint or courtesy to conceal the intensity of his obsession from all except those similarly afflicted.

A golf course outside a big town serves an excellent purpose in that it segregates, as though a concentration camp, all the idle and idiot well-to-do.

Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh, it's good; if it's stale, it's bad; and if you're not certain, try it on the cat.

For Poetry is the wisdom of the blood,That scarlet tree within, which has the powerTo make dull words bud forth and burst in flower.

I have always said that if I were a rich man, I would employ a professional praiser.

We attended stables, as we attended church, in our best clothes, thereby no doubt showing the degree of respect due to horses.

Hell has a climate, but no situation. It lies in the spirit, and not in space.

Empiricism teaches that there is a real world of fixed things on the outside and that ideas of these outside things are stamped on the mind which is at the beginning of life a blank.

True joy, as it turns out, comes only to those who have devoted their lives to something greater than personal happiness.

Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again.

The data is clear: If you give a woman an opportunity, she will make a huge difference.

Our pain can be our greatest teacher. It leads us to places we'd never go on our own.

Talent is everywhere, it only needs the opportunity.

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I.

A life without a cause is a life without effect.

What this means is that the first week of every new series of ads will continue to yield softer results than you can expect to see in weeks two and three.

Once you learn how to do something, you don't lose it. Unless you die.