Reality is the #1 cause of insanity among those who are in contact with it

No pictorial or sculptural combinations of points of human loveliness, do more than approach the living and breathing human beauty as it gladdens our daily path.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist

As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.

That the play is the tragedy, “Man,” And its hero, the Conqueror Worm.

Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.