''A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.''

''Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.''

''Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the condition of science and aspiring to do it. The artist works out his own formulas; the interest of science lies in the art of making science.''

''Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.''