You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules

The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.

For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary.

It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.

The influence of a vital being vitalizes.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here is the place to have the experience.