“Many men indeed remain as boys inside even as the years pass and their heads turn bald and gray.”

“Whatever in him cares about one thing or another in such a way as to be aroused into temporary lunacy reflects an addiction to a fantasy that has been fed for a very long time.”

“To people passing by it may be strikingly noticeable and obvious, but for the man himself it is utterly invisible.”

“Attention, like anything that has substance, is potent when collected and diluted when dispersed.”

“So important is the outer appearance of a man’s reputation that the plain facts are often either too dull or too inconvenient to be admitted to the public eye.”

“The good, the bad, and the ugly are all justified into paintings that find their place on an illusionary wall.”

“All of nature hopes to seduce him to bend at every moment, for nothing in nature understands the dignity of a straight line.”