Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.

Anything which throws light upon the Universe, anything which reveals us to ourselves, should be welcome in this world of riddles.

I am certainly of opinion that genius can be acquired, or, in the alternative, that it is an almost universal possession.

I've often thought that there isn't any "I" at all; that we are simply the means of expression of something else; that when we think we are ourselves, we are simply the victims of a delusion.

I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.

If one had to worry about one's actions in respect of other people's ideas, one might as well be buried alive in an antheap or married to an ambitious violinist. Whether that man is the prime minister, modifying his opinions to catch votes, or a bourgeois in terror lest some harmless act should be misunderstood and outrage some petty convention, that man is an inferior man and I do not want to have anything to do with him any more than I want to eat canned salmon.

I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.