I would sooner pray to a ghoul than to a god for material trappings and worldly success. Can you see the logic?

Criminal behaviour is the usurpation of the habitual activities of the upper classes by those beneath them. Therefore, if you wish to remain virtuous, be born into a family where you can do what you like.

Delve into the history of an autolatrist and you almost always find a doting mother and an absent father. The parents are, unconsciously, complicit in the crime of enlightenment.

We lose our hearing in the confines of brisk conversation between friends over music, and in social hubbub and discourse over clatter and sound. Prattle, gossip, smalltalk. This is not necessarily a problem. We hear what we need to hear in a quiet place, where we cannot mistake it, no matter how deaf we may be.

I tried to persuade a fly that he was trespassing; I tried to persuade a mosquito that she was stealing what was not hers. I got nowhere in either case. I now see that my only options were to eject, kill or leave.

Genius is contraction.

Genius, hiding its eyes, is sublime cowardice. This is also what distinguishes genius from insanity and overweening hubris, because no-one with any sense stands in front of a tidal wave and says 'All this is mine!'.

The most important question a person can ask is not 'Why am I here?', or even 'Who am I?', but 'When should I leave?'.

Genius is limitation.