It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

I can get where some scientists would say comedians are crazy. What you have to understand: A lot of comedians are dealing with a dark passion. A lot of these are guys coming from a tumultuous life, including myself. Some people need outlets, a way to express yourself.

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

I seem to turn out stories that violate the discipline of the short story form and don’t obey the rules of progression for novels. I don’t think about a particular form: I think more about fiction, let’s say a chunk of fiction.

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

When I see a story, I ask: is this something I’d like to be in? Is this something I’d like to see? And if I’d like to see it, would I like to tell it?

The last people with any ideas are young people.

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

I’ve had mixtapes that have been better than albums I’ve heard from other artists. I take my time; I put my heart into it.

Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don’t fit in a very interesting way.

When I start to write, I don’t have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.

Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.

Stand-up is hard. Or to keep it at a certain level is hard: I have no writers but me.

I just make the pictures and where they fall is where they fall. If somebody likes them, that’s always nice. And if they don’t like them, then too bad.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas.

My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.

I don’t live for the accolades. I’m more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings.

I never called my work an ‚art‘. It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o’clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do. And that includes me.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

I feel, as a songwriter, it’s one of the hardest things to do – to sit down and say how you feel.

But if you – if what – the reports are true, what they’re saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that’s going to increase our costs, we knew that.

If you’re gonna make connections which are innovative… you have to not have the same bag of experiences as everyone else does.

I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

I think that by staying true to myself and making music from my heart, the blessings come.

I’m interested in Jackson Pollock’s kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it’s nothing, and yet it’s incredible.

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

Whatever is on the page is what I’m married to. I’m very prepared. I’m a thespian. I don’t like to improv. I don’t like to go off course ‚cause I think that’s where stuff happens. When you stick to the material ‚cause it’s written so well, that’s where the magic happens.

Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.

I’m a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don’t agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them good books.

Hoover was a patriot in his heart, but he definitely exceeded his power.

I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

I try to really capitalize off of what other rappers really can’t do. There are opportunities that rappers I love simply can’t get, because… you know… I don’t have the tattoos; I have a different image.

I’ve always been amazed by Da Vinci, because he worked out science on his own. He would work by drawing things and writing down his ideas. Of course, he designed all sorts of flying machines way before you could actually build something like that.

There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.

There are half a dozen subjects that I return to time and time again, and that doesn’t bother me. Because most of my favorite writers do that, to hunt down the same topic or theme from different directions each time.

Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

Find enough clever things to say, and you’re a Prime Minister; write them down and you’re a Shakespeare.

People think you have to go through something to write about it, and you absolutely do not. You can write about, like, a shoe. It’s a story.

I’m just writing, writing, writing. I keep these tablets on me until I’m inspired to go back in and make the music. I never take a break from my pen, because I pride myself on that.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

It’s kind of like a challenge to myself to be able to hear somebody else’s hook and kind of interpret the words. Because my own hooks, I already know what I mean when I write them.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.