The intelligence of an individual in not a fixed quantity.

Could we look into the head of a Chess player, we should see there a whole world of feelings, images, ideas, emotion and passion

Comprehension, inventiveness, direction, and criticism: intelligence is contained in these four words.

The scale, properly speaking, does not permit the measure of the intelligence, because intellectual qualities are not superposable, and therefore cannot be measured as linear surfaces are measured.

Heredity, to our understanding is not capable of giving to this illness (paraphilia) its characteristic form ... Heredity invents nothing, creates nothing anew; it has no imagination.

If perception is limited by experience, knowledge, and/or education, what deems my actions “correct” or my thoughts as moral?

No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly...and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it.

Make choices in life that don't leave people bitter, worse off or confused. Any choice that leads you to do this is a choice that didn't include God in the decision making process.

Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire.

Every generation needs regeneration

Where we find echoes, we generally find emptiness and hollowness; it is the contrary with the echoes of the heart.

I ended up in the US for a month or so, before moving to Montreal with some Romanian friends.

Women have to risk civil disobedience for their rights.

Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy-it's the occurring that's hard.

I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.