Wars are made to make debt.

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.

See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. O, that I were a glove upon that hand That I might touch that cheek!

Truth is ugly that is why we don't like it

No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero

dare to be different

This is why true beauty never strikes us directly. The setting sun is beautiful because of all it makes us lose.

A good marriage isn't something you find; it's something you make.

I think we have the wrong notion of commercial and intellectual or artistic film. Because all films are commercial.

Nonviolence, in its dynamic condition means conscious suffering.

If you've looked at all the glamour magazines lately, all the covers are actresses. If they are on those covers, they are going to try to emulate models. That's just the way it is.

When lifting weights, nothing feels better than achieving a high point on the bench press with no help from your spotter.