“One has to know the size of one's stomach.”

“Egoism is the law of perspective applied to feelings: what is closest appears large and weighty, and as one moves farther away size and weight decrease.”

“No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.”

“When one has not had a good father, one must create one.”

“When one has much to put in them, a day has a thousand pockets.”

“One must pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while still alive.”

“The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.”