But Zarathustra made it clear in which direction the answer lay; it is towards the artist-psychologist, the intuitional thinker. There are very few such men in the world's literature; the great artists are not thinkers, the great thinkers are seldom artists.

Our language has become a tired and inefficient thing in the hands of journalists and writers who have nothing to say.

Criminals interest me, because they're driven by the same desires as we are, but they take these disastrous shortcuts and end up in a real mess.

Imagination should be used, not to escape reality but to create it.

When I open my eyes in the morning, I am not confronted by a world, but by a million possible worlds.

I was aggressively nonpolitical. I believed that people who make a fuss about politics do so because their heads are too empty to think about more important things. So I felt nothing but impatient contempt for Osborne's Jimmy Porter and the rest of the heroes of social protest.

Man is the only animal who is prone to insanity.