Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the condition of science and aspiring to do it. The artist works out his own formulas; the interest of science lies in the art of making science.

[Beauty is] that which makes us despair.

Advertising has annihilated the power of the most powerful adjectives.

A difficulty is a light. An insurmountable difficulty is a sun.

Politeness is organized indifference.

What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.

The mind has transformed the world, and the world is repaying it with interest. It has led man where he had no idea how to go.