I fly in dreams, I know it is my privilege, I do not recall a single situation in dreams when I was unable to fly. To execute every sort of curve and angle with a light impulse, a flying mathematics - that is so distinct a happiness that it has permanently suffused my basic sense of happiness.

A man who is very busy seldom changes his opinions.

Subordination to morality can be slavish or vain or self- interested or resigned or gloomily enthusiastic or thoughtless or an act of despair, just as subordination to a prince can be: in itself it is nothing moral.

Sleep is no mean art.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

You want to make him interested in you? Then pretend to be embarrassed in his presence-

Everything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father.