The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion; the important thing is that it does not try to conform to it.

Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist's business is to build the dwelling; as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him.

I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation

God lies ahead. I convince myself and constantly repeat to myself that: He depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.