This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.

Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got ahead better than it does now that salesmen fly through the air. What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way? How will the heirs of this age be taught the most basic motions that are necessary to activate the most complicated machines? Nature can rely on progress; it will avenge it for the outrage it has perpetrated on it.

There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.

Ask your neighbor only about things you know better yourself. Then his advice could prove valuable.

The development of technology will leave only one problem: the infirmity of human nature.

Let language be the divining rod that finds the sources of thought.

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.