They did not know what we can now guess at, contemplating the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it appears in ordinary existence.

Every new discovery is assumed at once into the sum total of knowledge, and with that ceases in a sense to be a discovery; it dissolves into the whole and disappears, and one must have a trained scientific eye even to recognize it after that.

One must fight to get to the top, especially if one starts at the bottom.

Picasso only registers the deformities which have not yet penetrated our consciousness. Art is a mirror which goes 'fast' like a watch - sometimes.

There will be no proof that I ever was a writer.

His biggest misgiving came from his concern about the loud crash that was bound to occur and would probably create, if not terror, at least anxiety behind all the doors. But that would have to be risked.

Please — consider me a dream.