Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

Reality is the apparent absence of contradiction. The marvelous is the eruption of contradiction within the real.

As if one could do what one wanted with one's own body!

For each man there awaits... a particular image capable of annihilating the entire universe.

I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.

Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine.