The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!