I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.

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 I don't keep complaining about my problems, it doesn't mean I have fewer of them, all it means is I can handle them better.

Money is a living power that dies without its root. Money will not serve the mind that cannot match it. Is this the reason why you call it evil?

I found that when it hurt, sometimes the most effective response was to feel the pain rather than wish it away or pretend it was not there.

I don't think I'm successful.

No man knows my history.

In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.

Modeling is my number one priority - one hundred percent.

When anyone prays, the angels that minister to God and watch over mankind gather round about him and join with him in prayer.

People got very wimpy about 'Scarface' very quickly.

The level of acting that I bring to films in three dimensions. I hope they make people sign some kind of waiver because if their mind explodes from my acting in 3D, it's not my fault.