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.

As to the rest, I am no more guilty of imitating 'real life' than'real life' is responsible for plagiarizing me.

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

Poor Knight! he really had two periods, the firsta dull man writing broken English, the seconda broken man writing dull English.

Just like a man grieving because he has recently lost in his dreams some thing that he had never had in reality, or hoping that tomorrow he would dream that he found it again. That is how mathematics is created; it has its fatal flaw.

Don't touch me; I'll die if you touch me.

Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.