With respect to physical existence, one needs little, and to the degree that one needs less, the more perfect one is.

I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.

Nothing is as heady as the wine of possibility

Maturity consists in the discovery that there comes a critical moment where everything is reversed, after which the point becomes to understand more and more that there is something which cannot be understood.

When you were called, did you answer or did you not? Perhaps softly and in a whisper?

I would rather be a swineherd, understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men.

I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would be a pity, for sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius.