With Usura With usura hath no man a house of good stone each block cut smooth and well fitting.

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.

I've always said I'm the worst representative of Muslim-Americans that's ever existed, because I've been inside more bars than mosques.

No matter whose bed you die in the bed will be yours for your voyage onto the surgical andiron of God.

A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.

The will to power can express itself only against resistances; it seeks that which resists it--this is the native tendency of theamoeba when it extends its pseudopodia and gropes around.

Companies do not do new things because they understand it but because they feel it.

John Lott has done the most extensive, thorough and sophisticated study we have on the effects of loosening gun control laws.

I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do. I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be more

Darkness gives free rein to the mind's worst imaginings.

...this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought, so eager to believe and snarl and hate.

America has a right to be a leader. This leadership should be realized through partnership, not domination.