A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.
Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery.
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
It is a law of nature that we defend ourselves from one affection only by means of another.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
A painter should not paint what he sees but what should be seen.
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.