“Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.”

“Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.”

“How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!”

“After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of the 20th Century. Scientific miracles, fables on the pattern A+ B, a clear-sighted, sickly literature. No more poetry but analytic fantasy. Something monomaniacal. Things playing a more important part than people; love giving away to deductions and other forms of ideas, style, subject and interest. The basis of the novel transferred from the heart to the head, from the passion to the idea, from the drama to the denouement.”

“At the bottom of all patriotism there is war: that is why I am no patriot.”

“He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.”

“Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.”