“The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modif...”

“Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.”

“Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.”

“Democracy is an abuse of statistics.”

“Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours...”

“To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.”

“Tomorrow is no man's gift.”

“A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.”

“The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and hi...”

“The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.”

“Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreck...”

“Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.”