“If you have ever successfully resisted getting angry, then you know what it is like to resist a demon.”

“The meaning of life is basically to be the kind of person you would want to be around.”

“Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.”

“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”

“There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”

“Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.”

“I think all - or the ones thet I've run into - tend to have a faintly tenuous relationship with the real world, because so much is going on on the inside. They may be geniuses but they often need s...”

“Throughout history, only a small number of people have done the serious thinking for everybody.”

“All geniuses are peculiarly inclined to solitude, to which they are driven as much by their difference from others as the inner wealth with which they are quipped, since among humans, among diamond...”