“This depiction is only negative as long as it is true, and the situation is only as desperate as a man remains unaware.”

“A man is only as intelligent as the quality of his attention.”

“Every other virtue is a derivative of this capacity, subordinate to it, and the measure of its quality within a man ranks him along an invisible hierarchy.”

“The anecdote in a crazed situation is always to turn conceptions upside down, inside out, or simply throw them out of the window and so leave the senselessness for the cinema.”