Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province.

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness , of fear and pleasure; it's a little like making love, the physical act of love.

Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.