There is no science without fancy and no art without fact.

Devices which in some curious new way imitate nature are attractive to simple minds.

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual, and only the individual reader is important to me. I don't give a damn for the group, the community, the masses, and so forth.

Age indomitably, in the European manner. Do not finish your labours young. Be a planet, not a meteor. Honor the working day. Sit at your desk.

My heart was a hysterical unreliable organ.

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Most of the dandelions had changed from suns to moons.