"The true genius is a man who can say what he likes without being understood."

"I am constitutionally nervous—high-strung. I have a morbid dread of solitude."

"All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry."

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."

"I have no belief in the perfectibility of human nature."