Although we read with our minds, the seat of artistic delight is between the shoulder blades. That little shiver behind is quite certainly the highest form of emotion that humanity has attained when evolving pure art and pure science. Let us worship the spine and its tingle.

You know, what's so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own.

No difference exists between American and European manners. A proletarian from Chicago can be just as Philistine as an English duke.

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

I always call him Lewis Carroll Carroll, because he was the first Humbert Humbert.

For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me.

The square root of I is I.