The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than read more

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of read more

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

In my mind's eye, Horatio.

In my mind's eye, Horatio.

You do not reform a world by ignoring it.

You do not reform a world by ignoring it.

This restless world
Is full of chances, which by habit's power
To learn to bear is easier read more

This restless world
Is full of chances, which by habit's power
To learn to bear is easier than to shun.

Enjoy yourself, for there is nothing in the world we can call our own.

Enjoy yourself, for there is nothing in the world we can call our own.

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.