When politicians deny anything fiercely, there is a good chance that it will happen.

Perhaps there is a minimum distance that should separate one exhibit from another... Indeed those specialized in psychophysics have actually come up with some rules.

As soon as your brain starts telling you that you can't have a tree that is blue then you stop being able to paint trees.

What is creative is the seeking of perfection - and not attaining it.

The Japanese, if I understand them, are masters of the unsaid and the unstated, of subtlety and ambiguity, all of which constitute powerful stimulants to the imagination.

In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end.

Artists erase reality to a greater or lesser extent, and substitute their own reality - created by their brains, instead.

I gather that the dopaminergic system in the reward centres of the brain respond even more vigorously to the expectation of reward than to reward itself. Hence, perhaps, the disappointment.

I can really recommend a beautifully but sparsely furnished room with empty walls!

I always expect the worst from this evil and wicked world and am often pleasantly surprised when the worst does not come to pass, but never or rarely surprised or upset when it does.

Self-censorship, whether known or unknown, is an unwelcome brake on creativity; it stifles self-expression and hence prevents a work from reaching the heights of great art.

Praying is the power of being.

When you have a definite purpose of life, the universe will reveal the path to attainment.

Humans which imprison the animals can never be called as humans!

Running has made being depressed impossible. If I'm going through something emotional and just go outside for a run, you can rest assured I'll come back with clarity.

You will always know whether you are delivered from the guilt of sin by answering this question: Am I delivered from the love of sin?

I knew I wanted to be a writer and I knew if I had a wife and family, I would neglect something, and I was afraid it wouldn't be the writing.

There is nothing new under the sun, not even Manet.

In Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy.

Friends are rare for, the good reason that men are not common.

Free will and consciousness is an illusion, and the self is a complex of memes.