I'm impatient. I get twitchy. When I get that feeling I just go out and make something happen.
The knowing, I told myself, is only a vapor of the mind, and yet it can wreck havok with one's sanity.
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.
It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
If a mind is just a few pounds of blood, urea, and electricity, how does it manage to contemplate itself, worry about its soul, do time-and-motion studies, admire the shy hooves of a goat, know that it will die, enjoy all the grand and lesser mayhems of the heart ?
For the longest time I didn't realize I was creative - I just thought I was strange.
I'm irrational about all things creative and I'm always late!
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
In Science, it is when we take some interest in the great discoverers and their lives that it becomes endurable, and only when we begin to trace the development of ideas that it becomes fascinating.
We had a great many horses, of which we gave Lewis and Clark what they needed, and they gave us guns and tobacco in return.