“The Creator has I say it in all reverence - drawn a myriad red herrings across the track, but the true scientist refuses to be baffled by superficial appearances in detecting the secrets of Nature...”

“It takes two men to make one brother.”

“In these electric times the criminal receives a cosmopolitan reputation. It is a privilege he shares with few other artists.”

“America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!”

“New York is the great stone desert.”

“Everything changes but change.”

“Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.”

“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”

“There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”

“Symbolic of life, hair bolts from our head[s]. Like the earth, it can be harvested, but it will rise again. We can change its color and texture when the mood strikes us, but in time it will return ...”

“Naked you are blue like the night in Cuba,you have vines and stars in your hair,”

“Red hair, sir, in my opinion, is dangerous.”