The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.

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.

empty out the toxins of life to avoid clogging

Emotion it self is blindfold. So one second of your life control by emotion it's the definition of selfishness.

Every new concept first comes to the mind in a judgment.

I wanted to be scared again... I wanted to feel unsure again. Thats the only way I learn, the only way I feel challenged.

And what my constitutional values are are wholly irrelevant to the job, and so neither you nor anyone else will know what they are.

I just believe in working. I'm not one of those romantic explainers of my own individual point of view.

Retire for what? What would I do? I made my name as a person that is helping. I'm like Moses in the music business.

Spacetime tells matter how to move; matter tells spacetime how to curve.

Look! Look! If you look really hard at things you'll forget you're going to die.

I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment