Spiritual stagnation ensues when man's environment becomes unpredictable or when his inner life is made wholly predictable.

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.

I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.

I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.

When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed.

Life is a daring faith.

Ain’t nothing wrong with a little crew love!” True mocked her.

People would believe propagate, spread rumors or conspiracy theories in order to protect their own system of denial.

And it should be something that only that group of people could've made with everybody invested.

No one appreciates a professional anymore. Everyone's a mystic. Which is why I take drunk Jim over acid Jim - the argument all roads eventually lead to.

There is only one right way to draw... physical contact with all sorts of objects through all the senses.

There's more than one way for a girl to Google a cat.

I have replaced my instinct for secrecy with an instinct for confession.

I forced myself to picture the last moments. The penultimate breath. A final sigh. And yet. It was always followed by another.

For so work the honey bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom.