“Nothing in the world is as certain as death.”

“Without him nothing was done, and through him everything was done, and the king trusted him more than any other.”

“The more I study men, the more I realize that they are nothing in the world but boys grown too big to be spankable.”

“At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored; that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed on airy nothings, whose substance is so ill-fitted to withstand the brutal touch of adult inquisition.”

“I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love”

“...beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.”

“Philosophy leads to death, sociology leads to suicide.”