I have tried to write Paradise Do not move Let the wind speak that is paradise. Let the Gods forgive what I have made Let those I love try to forgive what I have made.

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.

Be in love with your life, every detail of it.

The fear of failure kills creativity and intelligence. The only thing it produces is conformity.

Why is it that we don’t worry about a compass until we’re lost in a wilderness of our own making?

Once there is realization of self challenge, ego versus soul, competition with others becomes futile.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.

one sank into the ancient sin of anomie when challenges failed.

My parents are wonderful people and they instilled in me an idealism for which I'm grateful.

I wish I had my beta-blockers handy.

The unique danger today is the possibility that we may face longer-term stagnation as a consequence of relying too heavily on borrowed money.