"Do you know that high fever which invades us in our cold suffering, that aching for a land we do not know, that anguish of curiosity? There is a country which resembles you, where everything is beautiful, sumptuous, authentic, still, where fantasy has built and adorned a western China, where life is sweet to breathe, where happiness is wed to silence. That is where to live, that is where to die!"- Invitation to a Voyage"

"How convenient it is to declare that everything is totally ugly within the habit of the époque, rather than applying oneself to extract from it the dark and cryptic beauty, however faint and invisible it is."

"Imagination is the queen of truth, and possibility is one of the regions of truth. She is positively akin to infinity."

"Comme l'imagination a cre e le monde, elle le gouverne. Because imagination created the world, it governs it."