I do not think that I am ever overconfident. I am merely wholly confident, and I maintain that there is all the difference in the world there.

They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangible, invisible mentality.

Clothes therefore, must be the insignia of the superiority of man over all other animals, for surely there could be no other reason for wearing the hideous things

Traveling through space is stupifyingly monotonous.

It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness.

I could write stories just as rotten.

I write to escape ... to escape poverty.