Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism . . . the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.

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.

Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.

When the sun is shining, make hay, because it would be sunset on my career at some point, and when it is, I want to be exhausted.

Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original.

Ninety-nine percent of advertising doesn't sell much of anything.

Everybody acts like they're in a movie in most movies. That's why they stink.

If our ahimsa is not of the brave but of the weak, and if it will bend the knee before himsa, Gandhism deserves to be destroyed.

A nation's art is the expression of its soul.

If you put your mind to anything that you dream, you can achieve it.

There is no truer truth obtainable by Man than comes of music

When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes.