"It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous."

"All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure."

"If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble."

"Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance."

"In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order."

"I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread."

"The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful."

"The darkest nights often reveal that shadows are only cast by the presence of light."