The making of thoughts is the most common instance of human participation in the creative act.

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

A creative person respects the creative spark in other individual men, and in all men (and women).

The creative individual not only respects the irrational in himself, but also courts the most promising source of novelty in his own thought.

The refusal to choose is a form of choice; disbelief is a form of belief.

Creativity is energy being put to work in a constructive fashion.

Beauty fades and the body becomes old, but nothing can dull the shine of a woman with a good heart.

The bravest are the tenderest. The loving are the daring.

They never were planning to be here. All my family are going to London because they wanted to go to the big one. There was never any showdown - there wouldnt be.

As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.

The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements.

We must create a [economic] crisis in order to ensure that there is no alternative to a smaller government.

Governments steal from citizens through taxes and through the subterfuge of monetizing their own IOUs.

Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Big emotions that are unexplained are really scary. At least to me.

I would love to work with Bill Murray. I've always been such a big fan. I think he's obviously a great comedic actor but a really interesting actor.