I shall continue to exist. I may assume other disguises, other forms, but I shall try to exist.

Fortune sides with he who dares

Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

The square root of I is I.

All colors made me happy: even gray. My eyes were such that literally they Took photographs.

The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.

I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.

My heart was a hysterical unreliable organ.

The clumsiest literal translation is a thousand times more useful than the prettiest paraphrase.

Our best yesterdays are now foul piles of crumpled names.

I cannot disobey something which I do not know and the reality of which I have the right to deny.

There is no science without fancy and no art without fact.

I don't think in any language. I think in images.

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.

His wings were failing, but he refused to fall without a struggle.

Let all of life be an unfettered howl.

My mind speaks English, my heart speaks Russian, and my ear prefers French.