For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come.

Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

My situation is a solemn one: life is offered to me on the condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than cannibalism. My will contains directions for my funeral, which will be followed, not by mourning coaches, but by oxen, sheep, flocks of poultry, and a small traveling aquarium of live fish, all wearing white scarves in honor of the man who perished rather than eat his fellow creatures. It will be, without the exception of Noah's Ark, the most remarkable thing of its kind ever seen.

It's a pity youth is wasted on the young.

The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.

After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.

Nothing remains beautiful and interesting except thought, because the thought is the life.