Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding.

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.

It is through strength of character, not luck, do we form the predictable path of our future.

To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.

A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.

I would love to work in international movies just because the talent all around the world is great. There's a lot of good talent and the audience base is bigger.

Meditation is like a bath for the mind; it clears and refreshes our windows of perception, allowing more light, love, and happiness to flow into lives.

Saying you love someone is a good thing.

The characters do have a life of their own; it's weird.

I have seen so many extraordinary things, nothing seems extraordinary any more

When families observe a later, deeper stage of cult involvement they may find it necessary to consider the involvement of a professional such as myself in an intervention effort.

I don't want to put 12 singles on an album. I want to make a story, a little movie.