Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.

What is the hardest task in the world? To think.

We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.

What is outside my mind means nothing to it.

The brain is an unreliable organ, it is monstrously great, monstrously developed. Swollen, like a goiter.

What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.

If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.

my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing

It is far, far better and much safer to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.

Your mind’s got to eat, too.

Is there no way out of the mind?

Not all heads have a brain.

Sanity is madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.