“What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.”

“Only those who attempt the absurd...will achieve the impossible. I think ...I think it's in my basement...Let me go upstairs and check.”

“So let us then try to climb the mountain, not by stepping on what is below us, but to pull us up at what is above us, for my part at the stars; amen.”

“I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.”

“At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important.”

“Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?”

“I don’t want the finer things in life, like preserves of jam and thick soft quilts, until I get what I need: the machinery to make that stuff for me.”