To do anything, it is first necessary to be doing nothing.

The dead hand of research lies heavy on too many novels.

What man can imagine he may one day achieve.

Mine! There isn't any such thing as mine. The world slips slithering through my fingers.

It seems as if when you try to do just one thing and nothing but, you can't do it at all. You do everything better if there's more than one thing.

The best work of artists in any age is the work of innocence liberated by technical knowledge. The laboratory experiments that led to the theory of pure color equipped the impressionists to paint nature as if it had only just been created.

If civilization ever achieves a higher standard of what constitutes normality, it will have been the neurotic who led the way.