If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had.

He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.

What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled by a problem.

I don't think anyone is thinking long-term now.

Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.

…What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.