Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.

Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

The Expulsion from Eden is an act of vindictive womanish spite; the Fall of Man, as recounted in the Bible, comes nearer to the Fall of God.

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations.