When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.

The only difference between the Adamic man and the man of today is that the one was born to Paradise and the other has to create it.

What is an artist? He's a man who has antennae, who knows how to hook up to the currents which are in atmosphere, in the cosmos.

The truly great writer does not want to write: he wants the world to be a place in which he can live the life of the imagination. The first quivering word he puts to paper is the word of the wounded angel: pain.

When spring comes to Paris the humblest mortal alive must feel that he dwells in paradise.

Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.

He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals