In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.

Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.

I think most people are more important than their opinions.

Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird's cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.

Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.

Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.

He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.