“There’s nothing under the ground that’s worth more than the little layer of topsoil sitting on top of it.”

“Everything is valuable under the right conditions. To a man dying of thirst, water be more precious than gold. To a drowning man, water be of little worth and great trouble.”

“The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.”

“A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.”

“Having found nothing worth more than emptiness, he leaves space vacant.”

“There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one.”

“It is, of course, a luxury to create art and, on top of this, to insist on expressing one's own artistic opinion. Nothing is more luxurious than this. It is a game and a good game, at least for me; one of the few games which make life, difficult and depressing as it is sometimes, a little more interesting.”

“Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.”

“Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.”

“We think sometimes we're only drawn to the good, but we're actually drawn to the authentic. We like people who are real more than those who hide their true selves under layers of artificial niceties”