Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

I required kindness and sympathy, but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it.

Everything must have a beginning ... and that beginning must be linked to something that went before.

The world was to me a secret which I desired to devine.

Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested.

When I step into the batter's box, the fans, the noise, the cheers, they all disappear. For that moment, the world is just a battle between me and the pitcher. And more than anything, I want to win.

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of a void, but out of chaos; the materials must in the first place be afforded; it can give form to dark, shapeless substances, but cannot bring into being the substance itself.