Democratic governments are not suited to the publication of the thunderous revelations I am in the habit of making. The unpublished parts will appear later... when Europe will have restored its traditional monarchies.

When the creations of a genius collide with the mind of a layman, and produce an empty sound, there is little doubt as to which is at fault.

The daily life of a genius, his sleep, his digestion, he ecstasies, his nails, his colds, his blood, his life and death are essentially different from the rest of mankind.

Since man's highest mission on earth is to spiritualize everything, it is his excrement in particular that needs it most.

Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.

Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties.

I shall be so brief that I have already finished.