It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.