“Genius is childhood recovered at will.”

“Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.”

“Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.”

“This life is a hospital where every patient is possessed with the desire to change beds; one man would like to suffer in front of the stove, and another believes that he would recover his health beside the window.”

“La soledad es el estado propio del genio y del elegido.”

“Fruit free of any bruises, not yet broken open, / With flesh so firm and smooth, it cried out to be eaten!”

“Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.”