“No one, it appears, took up his offer to commercialize his invention; like other inventions of his, it worked well for him, but mere mortals found the instructions too complicated.”

“Though his invention worked superbly [...] his theory was a crock of sewage from beginning to end.”

“Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent ”

“Oh, that feels good! I don't know who invented ties and then insisted a man was only properly dressed when he wore one, but if I ever meet him, I'll strangle him with his own invention”

“It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial. The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.”

“A great man quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word just as good.”