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

"The 99th part of literature is absolute rubbish. The one hundredth part is not so bad. The one hundredth part of that is worth reading."

"The Tale originated in a bet that I could produce nothing effective on a subject so singular, provided I treated it seriously."

"The universe is a sphere whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere."

"I have no desire to be famous. I have a desire to be read."