“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”

“The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.”

“I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.”

“Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out of your mouth.”

“Our sweetest songs are those of saddest thought.”

“What if you slept And what if In your sleep You dreamed And what if In your dream You went to heaven And there plucked a strange and beautiful flower And what if When you awoke You had that...”

“Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins.”

“I am God, la de dah.”

“Nobody knows you. You don't know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?”