"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious."

"I can choose to be an animal, a plant, a stone, a star; it is all the same to me."

"It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary."

"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what's the point of reading it? So that it will make us h…"

"The chains of tormented mankind are forged from the written paper."