When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is this absorption in what you are doing that frees your unconscious and releases your creative imagination.

Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line.

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

Terrorism and the whole drug scene are vivid examples of the fact that what persons abhor most of all in life is the possibility that they will not matter.

What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.