Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.

Speech is civilization itself.

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

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

To allow only the kind of art that the average man understands is the worst small-mindedness and the murder of mind and spirit. It is my conviction that the intellect can be certain that in doing what most disconcerts the crowd, in pursuing the most daring, unconventional advances and explorations, it will in some highly indirect fashion serve man - and in the long run, all men.

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.