All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.

What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?

The Roseicrucians were everywhere, aided by the fact that they didn't exist.

As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.

[I am fascinated by stupidity] because normal intelligence is boring. Two plus two makes four - finished. You have no possibilities! Stupidity is infinite. Two plus two can make billions of different numbers.

The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.

The more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesn't matter if the things are true. What counts, remember, is to possess a secret.