There are lone figures armed only with ideas, sometimes with just one idea, who blast away whole epochs in which we are enwrapped like mummies. Some are powerful enough to resurrect the dead. Some steal on us unawares and put a spell over us which it takes centuries to throw off. Some put a curse on us, for our st idity and inertia, and then it seems as if God himself were unable to lift it.

Hitler is no worse, nay better, in my opinion, than the other lugs. He makes the German mistake of being tactless, that's all.

To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.

I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.

The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.

I like the one about the little soulworms that fly out of the nest for the resurrection.

There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.