Geniuses are like ocean liners: they should never meet.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

I have no friends, there are only people I love.

Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?

There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.

Most people have never known solitude.... But there are a few of the other kind who can go back to their rooms anywhere and close the door on the whole world, and feel that they need never emerge.

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

There are other relations besides reality, which the mind is capable of grasping and which also are primary, like chance, illusion, the fantastic, the dream.

Everything that is not me is incomprehensible.

The painting of tomorrow will use the photographic eye as it has used the human eye.

Language was not given to man: he seized it.

Liberty isn't bestowed

Many things have been compared to a brick, mainly as a tribute to their intellect or to their aerodynamic characteristics.

Do you wear a diaphragm everywhere you go?' I want to scream, but stop myself because the idea really excites me.

I don't think when I make love.

So we can see we must substitute faith for fear, for fear is only inverted faith; it is faith in evil instead of good.

It is amusing to detect character in the vocabulary of each person. The adjectives habitually used, like the inscriptions on a thermometer, indicate the temperament.

I don't fear death, it must be like a long sleep.

So much of what we understand comes from knowing what something is and what that something used to be, which allows us to figure out, or at least imagine, what happened in between.

Excuse me? You're a lady?" "I bought a title on the Internet. I own one square inch of Scotland. And you're changing the subject.

Rules were made for fools to follow and wise men to be guided by.