"Was it not possible that the world itself was a brain?"

"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people."

"The human figure even at its best is a very poor piece of work compared with the flowers and the trees."

"What is the meaning of life? That was all — a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years."

"I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me."

"A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind of the reader."

"Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end."

"I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life."

"Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us."

"The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder."

"Books are the mirrors of the soul."

"Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind."

"So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters."

"Beauty is everywhere, and beauty is only two finger's-breadth from goodness."

"Thinking is my fighting."