“Some people come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede -- not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above 14.”

“If countries were named after the words you first hear when you go there, England would have to be called "Damn It".”

“Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.”

“It is impossible to have bad taste, but many people have none at all.”

“To make clever people believe we are what we are not is in most instances harder than really to become what we want to seem to be.”

“When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?”

“You believe I run after the strange because I do not know the beautiful; no, it is because you do not know the beautiful that I seek the strange.”