“If grammar is the skeleton of expression and usage the flesh and blood, then style is the personality.”

“The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?”

“Pagan blood returns!”

“Blood was flowing – in Bluebeard’s house, in the abattoirs, in the circuses where God had set his seal to whiten the windows. Blood and Milk flowed together.”

“How many times already had I encountered the painful lesson that although we may wish for the barb to be pulled from our flesh, it leaves a welt that doesn't heal?”

“I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent”

“Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.”