The sea never changes and its works, for all the talks of men, are wrapped in mystery.

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

the mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future

We live as we dream - alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.

The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.

Do not talk to me of Archimedes' lever. He was an absent-minded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands my respect, but I have no use for engines. Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.

They had behind them, to my mind, the terrific suggestiveness of words heard in dreams, of phrases spoken in nightmares.