Glance is the enemy of vision.

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.

The burden of information often makes us blind wisdom opens our eyes.

Maybe she knew some day it would become my job. My job to complete the melody she had begun.

Happiness and success require the highest possible optimism, with minimal expectations. Optimize without limits, and expect anything in particular.

And when they have done their job, America must look after and honor its veterans.

In June 2010, I moved out of my apartment and I have been mostly homeless ever since, off and on. I just live in Airbnb apartments and I check in every week in different homes in San Francisco.

When money talks, there are few interruptions.

I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.

I'd rather get a good clean laugh with good material, than an easy laugh by swearing or shocking. That's not clever or comedic, anybody can get a laugh that way, it's too easy.

The soul is no longer honored as it once was, but it still keeps appetite from being the measure of all things.

Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light.