Creativity is energy being put to work in a constructive fashion.

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.

A creative person respects the creative spark in other individual men, and in all men (and women).

The making of thoughts is the most common instance of human participation in the creative act.

The creative individual not only respects the irrational in himself, but also courts the most promising source of novelty in his own thought.

The refusal to choose is a form of choice; disbelief is a form of belief.

With time, many staged photographs turn back into historical evidence, albeit of an impure kind - like most historical evidence.

A ‘caring’ judgment is still a judgment. And any form of judgment creates blocks and stagnation.

If you're curious, London's an amazing place.

Independent women must expect more of themselves, since neither men nor other more conventionally domesticated women will hope for anything, or expect any result other than utter failure.

I am not a national leader. If I am a national leader I can speak out all that I want.

Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeated all things.

I have never lied to you, I have always told you some version of the truth.

It is cool to have a label head that is also a songwriter, in a band, and produces records.

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

I have a huge need for financial security; the emigrant in me has a fear of ending up homeless and in the gutter.