Just as water, gas, and electricity are brought into our houses from far off to satisfy our needs in response to a minimal effort, so we shall be supplied with visual or auditory images, which will appear and disappear at a simple movement of the hand, hardly more than a sign.

The advantage of the incomprehensible is that it never loses its freshness.

Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This is a precious gift.

If what has happened in the one person were communicated directly to the other, all art would collapse, all the effects of art would disappear.

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

A bad poem is one that vanishes into meaning.

An intelligent woman is a woman with whom one can be as stupid as one wants.