Man cannot bear his own portrait. The image of his limits and his own determinacy exasperates him, drives him mad.

Love is acting stupid together.

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

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.

Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery.

Sometimes I think and other times I am.

To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts.