“In and of itself, nothing really matters. What matters is that nothing is ever in and of itself.”

“My soul is nothing now but the dream dreamt by matter struggling with itself!”

“It wasn't the New World that mattered... Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It's life that matters, nothing but life — the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.”

“The greatness of a writer has nothing to do with subject matter itself, only with how much the subject matter touches the author.”

“It's life that matters, nothing but life—the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.”

“MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.”