imagination is new reality in the process of being created. It represents the part of the existing order that can still grow.

Malicious gossip takes the place of creation in non-creative lives.

What man can imagine he may one day achieve.

We might likewise say that humans are the neurotics of the animal world, in that they are the only animals who must choose to be instead of just instinctively being.

The dark has to be contained in the light or the light will be contained in the dark.

Many an author will speak of writing, in his best work, more than he actually knows.

If civilization ever achieves a higher standard of what constitutes normality, it will have been the neurotic who led the way.

Never give away your work. People don’t value what they don’t have to pay for.

The more specific you are, the more universal you are.

In order to go anywhere it is necessary to be where one is.

The dead hand of research lies heavy on too many novels.

Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.

...... I hate biochemistry because there is no chapter on roses.

The day my life changed forever...The day I first saw you.

I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.

There's not a lot of people expressing anger in the culture. They're expressing a lot of hyper-exaggerated sexuality.

A mathematical formula should never be "owned" by anybody! Mathematics belong to God.

Sometimes, occasions occur in life which demand you to be a little foolish in order to skillfully extricate yourself.

The idealism [in architecture] is in the formal arrangement, the relationship to the city, the use of materials that are available to me. That's where I say our powers are limited.

Being a specialist is one thing, getting a job is another.

Bruce [Dern] and I are in this car just for days and days, just talking about life and I could listen to his stories forever.