I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out until sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.

"...the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!'"

"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."

" How much do our concepts and assumptions limit our view of the universe?"