Geniuses are like thunderstorms: they go against the wind, terrify people, clear the air.

If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence.

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

A man who cannot seduce men cannot save them either.

You live life looking forward, you understand life looking backward.

If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable, insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what would life be but despair?